VCS-260 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A cluster configured with disk based I/O fencing has two dedicated high-priority LLT links and one low-priority link over public network interface.

What is the state of the cluster if both high-priority links fail simultaneously?

A. All nodes remain in regular GAB membership, but are also in jeopardy membership.

B. The cluster is in a split-brain condition until at least one other LLT link is working.

C. The cluster with active service groups stays running, but the other shuts down.

D. Service groups are unable to failover when resource faults occur, but can failover if a system fault occurs.

Consider the following service group configuration from main.cf

Both groups are online on server1, and the administrator executes the following command.

What is the result?

A. The user is prompted to take group appsg offline.

B. Group appsg and group dbsg both go offline.

C. The user receives an error about the group dependency.

D. Group dbsg goes offline.

An administrator wants to cluster an application using Veritas InfoScale Availability. Which two items are required to cluster an application? (Choose two.)

A. application binaries installed on shared storage

B. a command or script to determine application state

C. start and stop scripts or commands

D. application strict adherence to local host name

E. the ability to add logs to /var/VRTSvcs/log/engine_A.log

Where are the First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) logs, core dumps, and stack traces stored when a Veritas Cluster Server agent attempts to execute an entry point and fails?

A. /var/VRTSvcs/log/type where type is the specific agent type

B. /var/VRTSvcs/diag/log/FFDC

C. /var/VRTSvcs/diag/agents/type where type is the specific agent type

D. /etc/VRTSvcs/FFDC/dump

An administrator manually edits the Veritas Cluster Server configuration file while a cluster is stopped. When the cluster is restarted, all the changes made are missing.

Why are the changes made to the configuration file missing?

A. The cluster was started first on the node where the changes were made.

B. The hacf -verify command needs to be run after making the manual changes.

C. The cluster was started first on a node other than the one where the changes were made.

D. The haconf -dump command needs to be run prior to starting the cluster.

Which capability is provided by Virtual Business Service (VBS)?

A. the ability to monitor and alert the administrator to service group faults based on priority

B. the ability to Start and Stop service groups in a pre-defined dependency order

C. the ability to collect cluster HostMonitor data and availability reporting

D. the ability to automatically move service groups to the disaster recovery site on production fault

How can an administrator re-purpose one of three coordinator disks as a data disk for use in an application service group and still provide SCSI-3 I/O fencing?

A. enable "customized fencing" and temporarily use DAS or SSD disks as a replacement disk

B. replace all coordinator disks with coordination point servers

C. replace a coordinator disk with a coordination point server

D. add CPSSG service group to any of the cluster nodes and use it as CPS

An administrator is adding a node to a running cluster. The administrator has successfully installed Veritas

InfoScale Availability and has configured and started LLT.

Which command will allow the new node to communicate with the cluster?

A. gabconfig -c

B. hastart

C. sh /etc/gabconfig

D. hasys -force

An administrator is seeing a recurring fault involving a resource managed by the IPMultiNIC agent. Default log levels provide insufficient information for troubleshooting.

Which command should the administrator use to modify the debug level?

A. halog -modify IPMultiNIC LogDbg DBG_1 DBG_2 DBG_4 DBG_21

B. hares -modify IPMultiNIC LogDbg DBG_1 DBG_2 DBG_4 DBG_21

C. haagent -modify IPMultiNIC LogDbg DBG_1 DBG_2 DBG_4 DBG_21

D. hatype -modify IPMultiNIC LogDbg DBG_1 DBG_2 DBG_4 DBG_21

Which action should an administrator perform to ensure the coordination point (CP) service is highly available when adding a CP server into a Veritas Cluster Server environment?

A. configure multiple CP server instances on the same node

B. configure the CP server as a resource in a Veritas cluster

C. configure the CP server database on a multipathed disk

D. ensure the CP server is on a reliable network