The company I work for registered me for the 5-day Symantec NetBackup 7.5 for Windows: Administration course. I took the course and scehduled the exam for two weeks after taking the course. I've been with the company for four months. Before this job, I'd never used NetBackup or any enterprise-level backup software like it. The enviroment I work in uses a small fraction of what the product is capable of. Everything in our environment is backed up to tape using one robot with two drives. We have maybe 15 policies. Of those, we have a catalog backup, one HPUX server, 5 NDMP file systems, a couple Windows servers, and the rest are VMware virtual Windows servers.
Ever since my first exam attempt two weeks ago, I've spent every night during the week and every weekend, day and night, studying my notes from the lectures and the material Symantec provided and I still failed. What surprised me most was the number of questions not covered in the material or lectures.
Have any of you taken this exam and succeeded? What did you do to prepare? How long did you prepare? How long had you been using NBU before taking the exam? Did you take the 5-day course?
Thanks in advance.