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What is Expiration? How many Maximum versions can be maintained for a file and how many inactive versions can be maintained (tell the number)? by default one active data is maintained why not two any specific reason? How many times a tape(ex; LTO3) can be reused means re usability of the tape? What is the database that present in TSM? What is the background process that runs on TSM while running the TSM database backup? In DRM Process which are the manual and automated process? Steps for SAN Storage Configuration? Steps for Storage agent installation?

How would they identify and recover from a pinned log? Are you looking for a senior or junior person? A senior person should be relatively fluent in the TSM server OS and be comfortable working as a team member or recovery leader with the client OS and database admins. You might ask the person to draw or list typical TSM server processing steps and describe the purpose and recommend the sequence of each - Create offsite backups, reclamation, expiration, etc. Ask the person to describe the different retention settings that can affect a client and how they relate to each other. Consider TSM as a many fingered application, potentially reaching to each user in your organization and, more importantly, to your external customers. Your admin will need to have close interaction with other admins and users when they are all experiencing a high stress situation that their data has been lost and must be recovered within a defined time frame. Can he/she exhibit or at least pretend a level of confidence to calm the users while at the same time executing the technical aspects and directing others to do their tasks to successfully recovery what was lost? Could he/she positively identify the data on a tape that was lost in shipping so that every affected customer could be notified that their social security number may have been compromised? What is DRM? & why DRM? (Disaster recovery management) Steps in DRM? Explain each state? Tell me the process the moving the tape from mountable state to vault state? How you will define library ? explain step by step in command line? What is the last parameter in define path? Tell me the device name for library in TSM on AIX? Tell me full syntax for define device class LTO? What us policy management cycle?Explain? Full syntax for copy group? and explain the define copy group step by step? Difference between backup and archive? Default retention period for archive? Difference between active and validate policy set? Explain policy management class step by step in commandline? What is include and exclude list? Difference between clientopt and clopset? Difference between label and checkinlibvolume? Do I need to give label and check in commands for tape volume? When inserting tape in tape library you need to define lable libvolume? Where you set devclass in library? Explain Reclamation with diagram? Where it is important? What is collocation? Give me collocation syntax ? Restrict Reclamation in commandline? Backupset where it will be used? Difference between client and admin scheduler? Where you use it? Your are taking Backup db every day at 10 pm? What kind of scheduling? Tell me example for admin scheduling?

Tell me important TSM server files? Tell me important TSM client files? What is DRM? & why DRM? (Disaster recovery management) Steps in DRM? Explain each state? Tell me the process the moving the tape from mountable state to vault state? How you will define library ? explain step by step in command line? What is the last parameter in define path? Tell me the device name for library in TSM on AIX? Tell me full syntax for define device class LTO? What us policy management cycle?Explain? Full syntax for copy group? and explain the define copy group step by step? Difference between backup and archive? Default retention period for archive? Difference between active and validate policy set? Explain policy management class step by step in commandline? What is include and exclude list? Difference between clientopt and clopset? Difference between label and checkinlibvolume? Do I need to give label and check in commands for tape volume? When inserting tape in tape library you need to define lable libvolume? Where you set devclass in library? Explain Reclamation with diagram? Where it is important? What is collocation? Give me collocation syntax ? Restrict Reclamation in commandline? Backupset where it will be used? Difference between client and admin scheduler? Where you use it? Your are taking Backup db every day at 10 pm? What kind of scheduling? Tell me example for admin scheduling? Tell me important TSM server files? Tell me important TSM client files? What is the file for include and exclude list in client? What is the command to take backup of your TSM database? What is the file for include and exclude list in client? What is the command to take backup of your TSM database? Interview Questions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What is DRM? & why DRM? (Disaster recovery management)? Steps in DRM? Explain each state? Tell me the process the moving the tape from mountable state to vault state? How you will define library ? explain step by step in command line? What is the last parameter in define path? Tell me the device name for library in TSM on AIX? Tell me full syntax for define device class LTO? What us policy management cycle?Explain? Full syntax for copy group? and explain the define copy group step by step?

10. Difference between backup and archive? 11. Default retention period for archive? 12. Difference between active and validate policy set? 13. Explain policy management class step by step in commandline? 14. What is include and exclude list? 15. Difference between clientopt and clopset? 16. Difference between label and checkinlibvolume? 17. Do I need to give label and check in commands for tape volume? 18. When inserting tape in tape library you need to define lable libvolume? 19. Where you set devclass in library? 20. Explain Reclamation with diagram? 21. Where it is important? 22. What is collocation? 23. Give me collocation syntax ? 24. Restrict Reclamation in commandline? 25. Backupset where it will be used? 26. Difference between client and admin scheduler? 27. Where you use it? 28. Your are taking Backup db every day at 10 pm? 29. What kind of scheduling? 30. Tell me example for admin scheduling? 31. Tell me important TSM server files? 32. Tell me important TSM client files? 33. What is the file for include and exclude list in client? 34. What is the command to take backup of your TSM database?