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Veritas VCS-261 Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your VCS-261 exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete Veritas Administration of Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.3 for UNIX/Linux exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free VCS-261 questions. We also provide premium VCS-261 practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

Veritas VCS-261 Exam Objectives

Section Objectives
EXAM AREA 1 Overview and Architecture 101: Define the types, purpose, and benefits of storage virtualization.
102: Define the benefits and components of Veritas InfoScale Storage for UNIX/Linux including Storage Foundation and Storage Foundation Cluster File System with Volume Manager, File System, Dynamic Multi-Pathing, Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware, Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager, Storage Foundation for databases, Veritas File Replicator, and Veritas Volume Replicator.
103: Identify InfoScale Storage physical and virtual objects.
104: Demonstrate an understanding of advanced InfoScale Storage architectures including Flexible Storage Sharing and replicating solutions.
EXAM AREA 2 Installation and Configuration 201: Demonstrate the ability to install, license, upgrade, and configure InfoScale Storage for UNIX/Linux using the common product installer (CPI).
202: Demonstrate understanding of the InfoScale Storage Command Line Interface (CLI) and Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM).
203: Describe how to add disks and create local and clustered disk groups.
204: Describe how to create and delete concatenated, striped, mirrored, RAID-5, and layered volumes.
205: Describe how to create and configure local and clustered Veritas File Systems.
206: Describe how to configure volumes by adding mirrors and logs
EXAM AREA 3 Managing and Reporting 301: Describe how to perform file system administration.
302: Describe how InfoScale Storage supports thin provisioning, including thin reclamation.
303: Describe how to perform basic troubleshooting and recovery to address InfoScale Storage failures.
304: Manage, monitor, and report on an InfoScale Storage environment using Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM).
305: Identify the InfoScale Storage tools used to monitor and analyze performance.
306: Describe how to perform online administrative tasks for Veritas Volume Manager.
307: Describe how the kernel components manage the InfoScale Storage architecture.
308: Describe how to administer Dynamic Multi-Pathing for storage management and reporting.
309: Describe how to manage InfoScale Storage snapshots and storage checkpoints, including checkpoint visibility and checkpoint auto-mounting.
310: Identify the file systems that would benefit from File System data compression and deduplication features and describe how to use them.
311: Describe how to configure the Site Awareness feature of InfoScale Storage.
312: Define the InfoScale Storage capabilities for Storage Tiering using SmartTier.
313: Describe how to configure and manage SmartIO.

 
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