Veeam VMCE v12 Practice Exam 2

Which two public cloud infrastructures can be backed up without an agent?. AWS. Tencent Cloud. Alibaba Bloud. Oracle Virtualbox. Microsoft Azure.

An Engineer needs to test the impact of operating system updates on app functionality in an isolated non-production environment. What Veeam BAckup & Replication feature can be used to facilitate this?. Replication. Direct Storage Snapshots. Virtual Labs. Instant Recovery.

Management asks a backup administrator to deploy the Veeam Agent on a number of Amazon EC2 instances running Windows and Linux operating systems. A Veeam Protection Group is also required by management. The Veeam Distribution server does not have network access to these instances. What protection group type should be used to select these objects?. Individual computers. Microsoft Active Directory objects. Computers listed in a CSV file. Cloud Machines.

What can Veeam Service Providers deploy in the Veeam Service Provider Console 7.0?. Enterprise Plugins. Veeam Backup Agents. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. Veeam ONE.

For which workload can Veeam Data Platform achieve image-level backups?. AS/400. Solaris. IOS. IHP-UX.

Why is it recommended to install Veeam ONE before Veeam Backup & Replication?. Veeam ONE stores the license file necessary for Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam ONE can verify that the server meets the minimum requirements to install Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam ONE is a prerequisite for Veeam Backup & Replication installation. Veeam ONE can potentially identify infrastructure issues prior to performing a backup.

What feature is only available with the Veeam Agent for Linux?. File-level backup. Application-aware processing of. Backup from native snapshots. Volume Backup.

An environment is using Veeam Agent for Microsfot Windows and has Microsoft Exchange 2016 with regular database environment availability groups (DAG) configured. What option is required to properly backup the databases?. Standalone Server. Advanced Exchange Backup. Exchange Processing. Failover Cluster.

A company is running nightly backups to satisfy their 24-hour RPO. There are two critical applications that cannot be offline more that 4 hours with no more than an hour of data loss. How can this be accomplished?. Linux hardened repository with immutability. A local SOBR with AWS Object storage. Backup Copy jobs with hourly VM replication. Enable Continuous Backup Replication.

There is a company-wide mandate to migrate operations off corporate datacenters and over to AWS, Azure, and GCE. The Veeam engineer has backups of VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix VMs stored in on-premises repositories. The performance of a test restore was not satisfactory. Which solution should the engineer deploy?. Caching servers on premises and in the cloud. Veeam WAN accelerators on premises and in the cloud. Upgrade bandwidth to the internet. Helper Appliance in the cloud.

A Veeam Engineer creates a scale-out backup repository (SOBR) that uses AWS S3 as the performance tier. The backup job is configured to "Keep monthly full backups for: 12 Months". The engineer wants the backups to move to Glacier after 90 days. What should the engineer do first to achieve this goal?. Create a vault in S3 Glacier. Add AWS S3 as a capacity tier before they can use Glacier. Add an Archive tier with the appropriate bucket from S3. Reconfigure the SOBR to use block storage as the performance tier.

What type of backups can Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications provide?. A complete backup of the database and host server. A transactionally consistent backup of the database and is database logs. A transactionally consistent backup of active director. A backup of changes to the database after the agent backs up the whole server.

Which two service offering can a Veeam Cloud service provider provide to Veeam customers? (choose two). Backup as a service. Application Development as a service. On premise tape. Physical site security as a service. Disaster Recovery as a service.

What should be implemented when backing up a NAS file share to ensure there is more than one copy of the data?. Archive repository. Secondary copy. Backup repository. Cache repository.

A Microsoft SQL server is running in a VMware VM. The VM is very sensitive to snapshots, and can only be snapshotted once per day at 3am. However the RPO for the databases running inside the VM is 1 hours Which two Application-Aware processing settings should be selected in the backup job so that the 1 hour RPO for the databases is met? (choose two). SQL Tab: Choose how this job should process Microsoft SQL Server Transaction Logs: Back up logs periodically. SQL Tab: Choose how this job should process Microsoft SQL Server Transaction Logs: Do not truncate logs. General Tab: VSS Settings: Perform copy only. SQL Tab: Choose how this job should process Microsoft SQL Server Transaction Logs: Truncate Logs. General Tab: VSS Settings: Process transaction logs with this job.

An Engineer has used a Linux Hardened Repository as the backup repository. The immutability period is set to 60 days. The backup settings are: Retention policy: 14 days GFS Weekly full backup: 1 week GFS Monthly full backup: 6 months If a full backup is created on 27th May 2023 with a monthly GFS flag, when will this restore point be automatically deleted?. 28th June 2023. 28th July 2023. 28th November 2023. 5th August 2023.

The Compliance team is requesting a Veeam engineer complete the following tasks on the backup environment: 1 - All image-level backups are to be tested and verified 2 - Recovery verification with a well-known malware scan 3 - Send an email to the Veeam engineer with test results What is the recovery verification function to meet this requirement?`. On-Demand Sandbox. SureBackup. Quick Migration. SureReplica.

A Mid-sized company uses Veeam Backup & Replication to safeguard their business-critical data from ransomware attacks. The company needs to validate backups and increase security, while improving DevOps efficiency. How can a SureBackup Job be utilised to address the company specific needs?. Helps improve the data deduplication and compression ratios. Validates backup data and ensures backups are ransomware free. Creates a secure, isolated environment to test new applications. Improves recovery speed reducing TWO.

What is the purpose of a Cache repository when adding the file share?. To walk the file shares and move data to the backup repository. To control how fast the backup proxy can read data from the source file share. To make sure backup retention is being managed correctly. To store temporary metadata and track all objects that have changed.

A company's infrastructure consists of multiple Hyper-V servers that store VMs on local storage. Which proxy should be used to backup these VMs?. VM proxy. Guest interaction proxy. File proxy. On-host backup proxy.

An Engineer is configuring Veeam Backup and Replication for an organisation to protect a VMware environment using vSAN. The backup proxy must be isolated from the VMKernel. Which transport mode should the engineer use?. Direct NFS access. Direct SAN access. Network mode. Virtual Appliance.

A Customer has a physical windows server running Microsoft SQL 2020 Which component should be used to protect the whole server. Veeam Agent. Veeam Plug-in for Enterprise Application. Veeam Backup Proxy. Cache Repository.

A physical Windows server protected by a centrally managed Veeam agent is physically damaged. A Hyper-V infrastructure is available, and the physical server is eligible for virtualization. Which recovery step provides the lowest possible RTO?. Use Instant VM recovery to Hyper-V. Use Instant disk recovery to Hyper-V. Use Bare Metal Restore to Hyper-V VMs. Use Export Disk Content as Virtual Disk to create a new VM.

A Veeam Engineer needs to copy backup files from a Windows repository in Site A to a Linux repository in Site B. The WAN connection between the two sites is busy during business hours. The engineer needs to configure a backup copy job to accomplish the task. Which feature of the backup copy job should be configured to avoid transferring during business hours?. Immediate Copy. Periodic Copy. WAN accelerator. Backup Copy Window.

Which API is available to automate Veeam Backup & Replication operations?. REST API through Veeam One server. REST API through Veeam Backup & Replication Server. SQL queries on the Veeam Backup & Replication database. Powershell cmdlets through Veeam Enterprise Manager Server.

A customer NAS has multiple hardware failures and the NAS is no longer accessible. All of the users are impacted as they need to access the NAS for day-to-day work. Which restore method could minimise the service impact to the users?. Restore of files and folders. Instant file share recovery. Rollback to a point in time. Restore of the entire file share.

An Administrator is asked to change a backup copy job from periodic mode to immediate mode. How can this be accomplished?. Enable immediate in the backup copy job settings drop down. Right click on the job name and choose immediate. Copy the original backup copy job to a different folder and remap the job. Create a new backup copy job and delete the original job.

A customer has a local VMware environment that they back up locally and offload all retention to Wasabi's Cloud. The local backups have become unavailable, and the customer has to recover from Wasabi's Cloud What method would provide the fastest RTO from Wasabi so that users can interact with the recovered system?. Instant Recovery to EC2 VM. Restore entire VM to local VMware VM. Instant Recovery to Wasabi Cloud VM. Instant Recovery to local VMware VM.

Why is it recommended to have at least one backup proxy server in each site when defining a replica job?. The proxies allow replication automatic restart after failure. The proxies allow for no VM snapshots during transit. It allows deduplicaton during data transit across the WAN. The proxies allow automatic WAN acceleration. The proxies enable a stable connection for VM data transfer across sites.

A customer wants to start an on-demand lab from backup files for several mission critical VMs. What SureBackup feature should be configured to identify the necessary VMs?. Application Group. Virtual Lab. Staged Restore. Secure Restore.

To be able to increase backup retention the company has bought a Data Domain deduplication appliance. After setting up jobs to use it, the backup administrator observes an increase of restore consumption on the backup server. The proxy configuration has not been modified. What is causing the issue?. The backup appliance does not have enough resources to process the data. The SSL certificate on the backup appliance needs to be updated. The backup server has to fulfill the gateway role. The backup server needs additional resources to use a deduplication appliance.

A backup of a Windows VM running on a VMware cluster has been created. In which scenario can the Quick Rollback option be used during a Full VM Restore of the VM?. Migration of VM to VMware host in a different datacenter. Issues caused by storage data corruption. Migration of VM to Hyper-V host in the same datacenter. Issues caused by VM guest user error.

A software development company has deployed the Veeam Data Platform. Recently, developers have been making increasingly frequent requests to have files restore from their VMware VMs. What can be done to reduce the strain on the backup team?. Give developer access to the Veeam Plug-in for VMware vSphere Client. Give developers access to Veeam One Business View. Give developers access to the Enterprise Manager Self-Service File restoration portal. Outsource developer restore requests to a Managed Service Provider.

A Veeam administrator wants to diagnose known issues in the configuration and performance of backup infrastructure without involving Veeam Technical Support`. Intelligent Diagnostics. Log Shipping Servers. Business View. Best Practices Analyzer.

The engineer needs to backup sensitive data located on VMware vSphere encrypted VMs. The company policy prioritizes data security over anything else. In the backup infrastructure, the engineer has configured: One physical proxy configured on the DirectSAN access transport mode, for fast data transport mode, for fast data transfer speed and less load on the production network. Two physical proxies in NBDSSL Encryption has been enabled on the backup job Which action will allow the VM data to remain encrypted during the entire backup process?. Configure Global Network Traffic Rules to encrypt the backup traffic. Configure the job to use the proxies with the NBDSSL transport mode. Configure the job to use the proxy with the DirectSAN access transport mode. Upload a custom script that re-encrypts the VM data after the backup job.

Veeam is being used to backup a Microsoft SQL VM with transaction logs being backed up every 30 minutes to a repository that is local to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. Business requirements dictate that the database backup and all logs also be stored on a secondary, standalone repository in the DR datacenter. Backup Copy Job in Periodic copy mode. SOBR with copy mode enabled. Backup Copy Job using the SQL Transaction Log Job as the source. Backup Copy Job in Immediate mode.

Company security policy states that backups must be copied to a remote location within 8 hours. What step can a backup administrator take to receive an alert automatically if the backup job violates the company's policy?. Set a Data Protection alert in Enterprise Manager. Set a backup copy window alert on the repository. Set up post-thaw scripts to send an email. Enable the appropriate RPO monitor.

What happens if there are more than five unsuccessful attempts to enter the confirmation code during MFA login?. The user is permanently locked out. The user is locked out for 24 hours. The use is locked out for 1 minute. The use is locked out for 1 hour.

The Organisation has a strategy to copy its VM and Agent backups to the alternate site. The backup administrator has been requested to implement a similar backup copy strategy for unstructured data backups with 10 additional days of retention. Which configuration is correct?. File to tape job. File share backup job. File share copy job. Periodic backup copy.

An Engineer needs to be able to perform all functions eithout needing to access the backup server locally or over remote desktop. What should the engineer do?. Use SSH to connect to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. Install the required Veeam Explorers locally. Install the Veeam console on the engineers desktop. Use Enterprise Manager to connect to the Veeam Backup & Replication server.

An engineer needs to backup the data on a NAS file share, located on the company's main production site. Which option would increase the performance of the job?. Deploy the backup proxy and the cache repository on the same network as the NAS. Assign a high priority to this job. Assign Veeam WAN accelerators to the job. Deploy the backup proxy and the cache repository on a dedicated backup network.

Which Veeam replication failover function ensures that changes made during a failover a copied back to the original production VM?. Failback. Permanent failover. Undo failover. Undo fallback.

Which Veeam Backup & Replication functionality achieves the lowest RPO?. Backup Copy Job. Continuous Data Protection. Snapshot-based Replication. File to Tape.

An engineer has a NAS file share to protect. What preliminary step must be taken to create a NAS backup job?. Define file exclusions in the job. Register the file server under storage infrastructure in the VBR console. Add a Managed Server with the IP address of the NAS filer. Add a File Share under inventory and choose NAS filer.

An engineer has 3 Veeam Backup servers in 3 different datacenters. The engineer needs a way to have centralised licensing and role-based access control. How should the engineer accomplish this with the least effort. Install the Remote console on a different client. Use the Veeam Web Portal. Create a web portal using REST API. Deploy the Enterprise Manager.

What is the best practice regarding the configuration backup?. It should be stored on a repository in a remote site. It should be stored on the backup server. It should be stored on the default repository. It should be stored on a hypervisor datastore.

How often are gMSA passwords renewed?. Every 6 hours. Every 30 days. Every 24 hours. Every 365 days.

Where should the pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts be located?. On the administrator's computer. On the protected virtual machine. On the backup server. On the backup repository.

What VMware vSphere feature allows application consistency for virtual machines disconnected from the network?. VMware I/O filter. VMware vSphere standard switch. VMware vSphere distributed switch. VMware vSphere Management API (VIX).

In which backup mode the latest backup file is always a full backup of the most recent VM state?. Reverse Incremental. Forward Incremental. Forever Forward Incremental. Differential Incrememental.

Where are the VM blocks read from when performing a sythetic full backup?. All from production VM. Changed blocks from the repository and other blocks from the production VM. Changed blocks from the production VM and other blocks from the repository. All blocks from the repository.

When is it a good idea to backup a VM with Veeam Agent?. Always. When VM snapshots cannot be taken. When VMware tools is not installed on the VM. Never.

What type of agent backup job allows the selection of either managed by backup server or managed by agent?. Workstation. Failover Cluster. Server. This is not supported.

What type of protection group should be created when the agents are installed by a third-party software?. Microsoft Active Directory objects. Computers with pre-installed backup agents. Computers from CSV file. Third party installed agents.

What operating systems support the use of the change block tracking driver when working with agents?. Windows, Linux and MacOS X. Linux. Windows. MacOS X.

What Veeam Component store checksums of file share files to skip file that have not changed since the last backup?. NAS backup proxy. Cache repository. Backup Repository. Archive Repository.

What type of notification is received by default when a file or folder is skipped during a NAS backup job run?. Job error notification. Job incomplete notification. Job warning notification. None.

What NAS systems are supported as a file share for a NAS backup job?. NFS v3 and v4.1. NFS v1, v2 and v3. SMB v3 and v4.1. Bonjour.

What is the main advantage of using a larger block size for backup files on object storage repositories. Better deduplication. Lower API cost. Higher storage consumption. Faster data transfers.

What happens when the Change Block Tracking technology is not available on the ESXi host?. Store block checksums are compared with the production block checksums. The job fails over to the change file tracking mechanism. Incremental backups are not viable. Only full backups can be made. Non-persistent runtime components also keep track of changed blocks.

What blocks are cleaned by the BitLooker feature?. Blocks sued by deleted VM files. Blocks used by deleted backup chains. Blocks used by deleted guest OS files. Blocks used by VM swap files.

Who can delete files from an immutable repository?. Administrator users only. All users with permissions on the Veeam Backup & Replication console. All users with immutable deletion privilege. Nobody.

What types of repositories support Veeam native immutability? (choose two). Hardened Repository. Object Storage Repository. Network Attached Storage. Default Repository. Tape.

What is the effect of increasing the immutability period on the repsitory?. It has no effect. New value applies only for the next chains. New value applies for the active and next chains. Immutability period cannot be changed.

What is the minimum number of days that can be configured as the immutability period on a Veeam Hardened repository?. 1 day. 30 days. 7 days. 365 days.

What backup mode is supported with hardened repositories?. Reverse incremental. Forward Incremental. Forever Forward Incremental. Differential Incremental.

What type of credentials are mandatory for Linux machines to be used as Hardened Repositories?. Linux Account. Linux Private Key. Group Managed Service Account (gMSA). Single-use credentials.

What backup mode is NOT supported with object storage repositories. Reverse Incremental. Forward Incremental. Forever Forward Incremental. Differential Incremental.

What is NOT a storage system option for object storage repositories. Amazon EFS. Google Cloud Storage. Microsoft Azure Blob. IBM Cloud Object Storage.

How many backup servers can simultaneously send data to one object storage repository?. 1. 16. 8. 64.

What is the maximum number of protected instances recommended for a Veeam backup server with PostgreSQL database?. 100. 1200. 400. 5000.

How many tasks per CPU core are recommended on Veeam proxy servers?. 1. 4. 2. 8.

How many GB of RAM memory are recommended per CPU core on a Veeam repository server?. 1. 4. 2. 8.

What VMware vSphere feature is required for CDP to be configured?. VMware I/O filter. VMware Network I/O Control. VMware Storage I/O control. VMware VM snapshots.

What backup copy mode can produce less recovery points than the depending backup job?. Immediate Copy mode. Periodic Copy mode. Partial Copy mode. Reduce Copy mode.

What is the maximum number of restore points a backup copy job can have with simple retention?. 64. 512. 256. 9999.

In the 3-2-1 rule, what does the 1 mean?. 1 copy of the production data. 1 backup per day. 1 copy of the data stored offsite. 1 Linux backup repository.

What type of jobs support GFS retention? (Choose two). Replica Jobs. CDP Replication jobs. Backup copy jobs. Backup jobs. SureBackup jobs.

What periodicity can be configured with GFS retention? (Choose two). Hourly. Weekly. Quarterly. Daily. Monthly.

How are backups stored with the GFS retention policy?. As a reverse incremental backup chain. As a forward incremental backup chain. As a forever forward incremental backup chain. As full backups.

Which placement policy improves the performance of both transformation and restore operations?. Data locality. Performance. Distributed. Multi-extent.

What action is allowed on an extent when it is in maintenance mode?. Evacuate backups from the extent. Restore VM data from backup files residing on the extent. Transfer backup data to the extent. Export a backup as a .vbk file.

What types of repositories are NOT supported to be mixed on the performance tier of a scale-out backup repository?. Hardened repositories and mutable repositories. Repositories with different sizes. Repositories with different performance. Object storage repositories of different types.

What is TRUE about moving backups to a different repository?. object storage repositories used as source and target must be the same type. Hardened repositories cannot be used as target. Source and target repositories could be different types. Hardened repositories cannot be used as source.

How may files are obtained when a backup chain is exported?. Same as the backup chain. One full. Once incremental and one full. Five incremental and one full.

What backup properties of a VM change when it is moved to another backup job?. Backup Schedule. Retention Policy. Backup Repository. All the above.

What is the purpose of the proxy appliance?. Allow network connectivity with the virtual lab isolated network. Allow reading data from the production storage. Allow the hypervisor to read VM disks directly from the backup repository. Allow powering on the VMs without restoring them first.

Which is NOT a default test made during the SureBackup job. Application. Storage. Ping. Heartbeat.

Which statement is FALSE regarding replica recovery verification?. It is only for VMware vSphere replica VMs. It allows replica VMs to be in different networks and different hosts. It does not require a virtual lab. It takes a snapshot of replica VMs before powering them on.

What is NOT a benefit of deploying Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager?. Password loss protection. Multiple Veeam backup servers federation. 1-click restores. Comprehensive reporting.

What is a role available for users and groups through Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager?. Veeam Backup Administrator. Database Administrator. Portal User. Restore User.

An imported encrypted backup can be decrypted through what procedure? (Choose two). Start the data decryption wizard on the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager UI. Start the encryption key restore wizard on the backup server console. Start the encryption password recovery wizard on the backup server console. Open a support ticket with the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager licence. Start the password recovery wizard on the Enterprise Manager UI.

How does Instant VM recovery for VMware vSphere work?. Uses fast disk technology to quickly restore backup data. Uses replica VMs to quickly recover and sync changes from the latest backup. Uses vPower to let the hypervisor read directly from the backup chain. Uses healthy block on the datastore and only restores missing blocks.

When is it recommended to use entire VM restore with quick rollback?. Every time Instant VM recovery is not available. When a power outage abruptly stopped the physical hosts. When a storage failure affected the VM data. When a software update caused the server to boot with a critical error.

What is the recommended VM recovery option when a VM was deleted, and the application performance is priority?. Instant VM recovery. Entire VM recovery with quick rollback. Instant disk recovery. Entire VM recovery.

Where should the antivirus agent be installed to perform a secure restore?. On the protected virtual machine. On the Mount server. On the administrator's computer. On the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager server.

What are the possible actions to follow when the antivirus software detects malware on the scanned disk?. Abort VM recovery. Disable the network adaptor on the restored machine. Try to restore from the previous restore point. Delete the backup restore point. Remove malware form the disk and continue the restore process.

What is FALSE regarding the secure restore feature?. It only works with machines that run Microsoft Windows. The antivirus must support the command line interface. It is available for application item recovery. Malware scan results can be viewed from the backup server console.

What is the main benefit of using bare metal recovery with recovery tokens?. There is no need for backup server credentials. Agent backup can be recovered to a cloud machine. Agent backup can be recovered to a virtual machine. Agent backup can be recovered to a new physical machine.

How long is the recovery token valid after it is generated?. For 1 hour. For 24 hours. For 8 hours. For 36 hours.

What type of machines can agent backups be restored to?. Physical machines only. Physical and cloud machines only. Physical and virtual machines only. Physical, Virtual and Cloud machines.

Which Veeam Explorers require a staging server for some restore operations (choose two). Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint. Veeam Explorer for PostgreSQL. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server.

Which Veeam Explorer supports table-level restore?. Veeam Explorer for PostgreSQL. Veeam Explorer for Oracle. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server. Veeam Explorer for MongoDB.

What could happen if the Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL server is closed during an instant database recovery?. Veeam Explorers Recovery Service on the DB server keeps the job running. The Instant database recovery job is immediately stopped. Veeam Explorers Recovery Service on the Mount server keeps the job running. The recovery job is paused and resumed when the Veeam Explorer is reopened.

How can a guest OS file recovery be performed on an unsupported file system?. Through the Instant file-level Restore function. Through Instant VM recovery. Through the Multi-OS file-level restore. Through the Veeam file-level Explorer.

What Veeam component is needed to perform a file-level restore on an NTFS volume?. Backup Proxy. Scale-out Backup Repository. Guest Interaction proxy. Mount server.

What Veeam component can be used to perform a file-level restore on an ext4 volume?. Helper Appliance. FLR device. Proxy appliance. Backup proxy.

When would it NOT be a good idea to recover from a replica VM?. When you need to recover a full VM with immediate high performance. When the entire production site is down. When the bandwidth between sites is low. When having a major hardware failure at the production site.

When should a replica failback be performed?. When the prod site is up again and new data on the replica will be kept. When the prod site is up again and data on the original VM will be kept. When the original VM failed and an immediate restore is needed. When the production site is lost permanently.

What is TRUE regarding instant file share recovery?. SMB shares are published as read-only. NFS shares can be migrated to production. NFS shares are published as SMB. SMB shares are published as NFS.

What permissions will a restored file on a folder get it the NAS backup job has folder level only ACL handling?. The permissions originally configured on the file. The permissions originally reconfigured on the folder. The permissions originally configured on the file share. The permissions configured during the restore wizard.

What permissions will a restored file on the root folder get if the NAS backup job has folder-level only ACL handling?. The permissions originally configured on the file. The permissions originally configured on the folder. The permissions originally configured on the file share. The permissions configured during the restore wizard.