COH-285 Cohesity Certified Protection Professional – NetBackup Appliances Free Practice Exam Questions (2026 Updated)

The unsupported backup storage is BasicDisk. In NetBackup, Media server load balancing is a storage unit group selection method that directs jobs based on a capacity-managed approach, helping NetBackup avoid sending backup work to overloaded media servers. Cohesity NetBackup documentation states that NetBackup evaluates factors such as media server rank, current job count, and available disk space before selecting the most suitable storage unit. Most importantly, the same official topic explicitly states that Media server load balancing cannot be selected for a storage unit group that includes a BasicDisk storage unit, and a BasicDisk storage unit cannot be added to an existing group where Media server load balancing is already enabled.

This makes option C correct. AdvancedDisk, MSDP, and Media Manager storage are valid NetBackup storage technologies used in storage unit group designs, though the recommended selection method can vary by storage type. Cohesity documentation notes that Failover is recommended for AdvancedDisk, MSDP, and OpenStorage, while Media server load balancing remains a selectable storage unit group method for supported configurations. Reference topics: Configuring storage unit groups, Storage unit selection criteria within a group, and Media server load balancing.

The correct permissions are View and Subscribe. In NetBackup RBAC, adding an asset to a Protection Plan is treated as subscribing the asset to that plan, not creating, updating, or managing the plan itself. Cohesity documentation describes the workflow as selecting one or more assets, clicking Add protection, choosing a protection plan, and clicking Protect; it also states that a single asset or group of assets can be subscribed to one or more protection plans. The RBAC permissions model separates plan administration from asset subscription. The role-permissions topic defines protection plans as the area used to manage how backups are performed with protection plans, while assets are managed separately under the Assets permission category. Official NetBackup RBAC guidance states that to add assets to a protection plan, the user requires View and Subscribe permissions on the protection plan, with corresponding asset permissions to view and protect the assets. Therefore, View and Subscribe is the permission pair directly aligned with adding an asset to a Protection Plan. References/topics: RBAC role permissions, Protection Plans, Subscribe an asset or asset group, and Workload asset protection workflow.

( Storage unit groups in NetBackup enable load balancing and failover for backup jobs, by allowing you to define multiple storage units for a backup policy and specify the order in which they are used for backups.)

The correct command is nbstlutil. In NetBackup, lifecycle-managed images are controlled by Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs), and the dedicated command-line utility for inspecting and intervening in SLP processing is nbstlutil. Cohesity’s NetBackup Commands Reference defines nbstlutil as the command used to “run the NetBackup storage lifecycle policies utility,” and its description states that it provides a way for users to intervene in storage lifecycle policy operations. Most directly, the same official command reference lists the report function under nbstlutil and states that report shows a rollup of incomplete copies of lifecycle-managed images. Therefore, the practical command would be nbstlutil report, with optional filters such as lifecycle name, client, media ID, media server, storage server, or SLP version.

The other commands do not target this SLP-specific view. bpimage is associated with backup image operations, bpimmedia reports media/image relationships, and bpimagelist lists backup image catalog information. They do not provide the SLP incomplete-copy rollup requested in the question. Reference topics: NetBackup Commands Reference Guide, nbstlutil, Storage Lifecycle Policy operations, and lifecycle-managed image status reporting.