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Lumberton is a medium-sized company based in Wyoming. They have a central Data Center and numerous retail sites throughout the state. Their retail locations operate from 9 to 5 on weekdays and 10 to 4 on Saturdays. All IT systems must have minimal downtime during those key business hours.

After suffering a ransomware attack, they incurred major losses since the initial recovery from backup was only available from the day before, and the last two days of backups also contained ransomware infections. Management has mandated that backups be taken every 4 hours, and operations must resume within 2 hours if an attack occurs.

What do these requirements represent in data protection terminology?

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The Veeam Configuration backup can save credentials when saving with encryption enabled.

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Which of the following lists represents all the workloads that Veeam VBR protects?

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Define the 3-2-1 rule:

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You can create Backup Copy jobs from your local VBR repository targeting an external Google Cloud Repository.

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Contact Plus Lenses Corporation has a main office in Dallas and branch offices in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles. It is a Windows shop with no other operating systems in the company. The VBR server is located in Dallas, and each site has its own VMware cluster and center. The networks are also separate, but there is a high-speed connection between sites.

What components will help improve efficiency in this setup?

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John's Imperial Pizza network has set up a SOBR with both Performance Tier and Capacity Tier. Their main goal was to increase security, protect their backups from ransomware, and free up space from the Performance tier, keeping only the most recent restore points there. They are leveraging a Veeam Hardened repository for the Performance tier with immutability set to 60 days. To achieve this, they selected the “move backups to the Capacity tier” setting. Their current backup jobs have synthetic full backups retention for 4 weeks and 12 Monthly GFS backups.

Three weeks have gone by and space is not being freed up in the Performance tier. What could be the problem?

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For an unstructured data backup job, what role does the Cache Repository play?

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Cola Plus has had a major software failure on one of their Windows VM servers. They performed a manual failover to a replica in their DR site, and all services are back up and running. They have decided to continue leveraging the replica for a longer period while they figure out what went wrong with the VM in their DC.

What final step must they perform to complete the failover?

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Veeam can perform V2V instant recoveries from Hyper-V to vSphere.

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Rental Ruins is a car rental company that rents old wrecks cheaply. They would like to make certain that they are following the 3-2-1 rule but don’t want to hire a skilled and expensive Backup Administrator. They have already figured out how to perform their local backups but would like help in getting backup copies offsite and perhaps setting up replication for their critical workloads.

What would be the best option?

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A requirement of Staged Restore is that you need to have already set up a virtual lab.

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You can create your own test scripts for Sure Backup scripts.

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ACME Productions has been hit by malware. They need to restore from backups four VMs back into the Amazon EC2 environment. They would like to ensure that the restored VMs do not contain the malware.

What can they do?

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A South American corporation would like all of its backup data to remain within the boundaries of the countries in which it operates. They have two data centers in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. They perform local backups and backup copies between both locations in each country. Their data protection setup is all interconnected in case of extreme situations that would warrant restoring data abroad. Backup administrators have been known to make mistakes when targeting repositories in the wrong country.

What can they do to warn administrators when such a mistake might occur?

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In a scale-out repository, you can mix Performance Tier and Archive Tier object storage providers.

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For Hyper-V off-host Proxies, which two conditions must be met?

(Select two)
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What is the difference between Forever Forward and Forward Incremental Backup chains?

(Choose all the correct answers)
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Is it possible to schedule synthetic full weekly jobs for Object Storage jobs in Veeam 12?

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Where can you leverage tags in Veeam?

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Veeam Configuration backups can be sent to a Scale-Out Repository.

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State Bank has just installed Veeam to leverage the immutability of object storage backups. They have planned their storage carefully, taking into account immutability and the extra retention that has to be considered. However, they are finding that their on-premises object storage is being used faster than anticipated. They also noticed that their offsite IBM Cloud object storage has an even larger discrepancy.

What could be the problem?

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What are two key differences between regular vSphere replication and CDP replication?

(Select two)

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How do Backup Copy Jobs in periodic mode differ from those in immediate mode?

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What does Veeam recommend you have in your CDP infrastructure?

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Ted's Fishing Store has a midsized IT environment. However, they have never implemented Active Directory. They would like an easy way to add their physical servers into a Protection Group for backups.

What method would be best?

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In order to move individual workloads using the Move Backup feature, what condition must exist?

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What Veeam technologies are enabled by the Veeam vPower NFS Service?

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Super Sunlight Sales is a chain store across Canada. They have VBR servers in 10 outlets nationwide to back up their local workloads. The IT Management team would like a way to manage licensing more effectively, ensuring they are compliant with Veeam's licensing rules and allowing different groups of administrators different privileges for restoring files.

What should they do?

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Still Proof Technologies is a Windows-based company that has asked if Veeam can back up a Windows Failover Cluster.

Which is correct?

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Lumberton is a medium-sized company based in Wyoming. They have a central Data Center and numerous retail sites throughout the state. Their retail locations operate from 9 to 5 on weekdays and 10 to 4 on Saturdays. All IT systems must have minimal downtime during those key business hours.

After suffering a ransomware attack, they incurred major losses since the initial recovery from backup was only available from the day before, and the last two days of backups also contained ransomware infections. Management has mandated that backups be taken every 4 hours, and operations must resume within 2 hours if an attack occurs.

What do these requirements represent in data protection terminology?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 1]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 1]

✅ Correct answer:

A RTO Recovery Time Objective of 2 hours and an RPO Recovery Point Objective of 4 hours.

Explanation:

The company needs to be up and running in 2 hours after any disaster, that constitutes the RTO, in other words the maximum time that they can be offline. The company has determined that they can only afford to lose 4 hours’ worth of data. So if a disaster happens at 2PM the need to be able to restore data from at least 10AM. This is the RPO.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/planning.html?zoom_highlight=rto&ver=120

The Veeam Configuration backup can save credentials when saving with encryption enabled.

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 2]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 2]

✅ Correct answer:

True

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/config_backup_encrypted.html?zoom_highlight=configuration+backup+credentials&ver=120

The Veeam Configuration backup can save credentials when saving with encryption enabled.

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 3]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 3]

✅ Correct answer:

Microsoft Hyper-V VMs, Nutanix AHV VMs, oVirt VMs, Proxmox VE VMs, VMware vSphere VMs, Physical machines, Microsoft Azure VMs, Unstructured data

Explanation:

Unstructured data comprises files shares CIFS, NFS, SMB and Object Storage.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/overview.html?ver=120

Define the 3-2-1 rule:

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 4]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 4]

✅ Correct answer:

3 Copies of your Data, 2 Different Media Types, 1 offsite.

Explanation:

https://www.veeam.com/blog/321-backup-rule.html

You can create Backup Copy jobs on your local VBR server comprising of on-premises backup data located in a SOBR to target an external Google Cloud Repository.

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 5]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 5]

✅ Correct answer:

False

Explanation:

External Repositories are read only in VBR

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/external_repository.html?ver=120

Contact Plus Lenses Corporation has a main office in Dallas and branch offices in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles. It is a Windows shop with no other operating systems in the company. The VBR server is located in Dallas, and each site has its own VMware cluster and center. The networks are also separate, but there is a high-speed connection between sites.

What components will help improve efficiency in this setup?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 6]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 6]

✅ Correct answer:

Guest Interaction Proxies and Backup Proxies at each remote office.

Explanation:

Having Guest Interaction and Backup Proxies in the remote office will significantly reduce operations that otherwise would have been performed over the WAN link.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/guest_interaction_proxy.html?ver=120https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_proxy.html?ver=120

John's Imperial Pizza network has set up a SOBR with both Performance Tier and Capacity Tier. Their main goal was to increase security, protect their backups from ransomware, and free up space from the Performance tier, keeping only the most recent restore points there. They are leveraging a Veeam Hardened repository for the Performance tier with immutability set to 60 days. To achieve this, they selected the “move backups to the Capacity tier” setting. Their current backup jobs have synthetic full backups retention for 4 weeks and 12 Monthly GFS backups.

Three weeks have gone by and space is not being freed up in the Performance tier. What could be the problem?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 7]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 7]

✅ Correct answer:

The backups marked for deletion on the Performance tier will have to wait until the repository immutability retention has passed.

Explanation:

Immutable backups will not be removed from a repository until their immutable period has passed.

https://www.veeam.com/blog/immutable-backup.html

For an unstructured data backup job, what role does the Cache Repository play?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 8]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 8]

✅ Correct answer:

It is a location where Veeam temporarily stores metadata, which allows Veeam to perform fast and efficient incremental backups.

Explanation:

Immutable backups will not be removed from a repository until their immutable period has passed.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/unstructured_data_backup_infrastructure.html?zoom_highlight=cache+Repository&ver=120#cache_repository

Cola Plus has had a major software failure on one of their Windows VM servers. They performed a manual failover to a replica in their DR site, and all services are back up and running. They have decided to continue leveraging the replica for a longer period while they figure out what went wrong with the VM in their DC.

What final step must they perform to complete the failover?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 9]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 9]

✅ Correct answer:

Right-click on the active running replica and press "Permanent failover."

Explanation:

Failover is a temporary state and one must either commit the failover or role back. These procedures are explained here in the links.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/failover_failback.html?ver=120

Veeam can perform V2V instant recoveries from Hyper-V to vSphere.

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 10]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 10]

✅ Correct answer:

True

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/instant_recovery.html?zoom_highlight=instant+recovery+to+vsphere&ver=120

Rental Ruins is a car rental company that rents old wrecks cheaply. They would like to make certain that they are following the 3-2-1 rule but don’t want to hire a skilled and expensive Backup Administrator. They have already figured out how to perform their local backups but would like help in getting backup copies offsite and perhaps setting up replication for their critical workloads.

What would be the best option?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 11]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 11]

✅ Correct answer:

Contact a Veeam Service Provider that is offering Veeam Cloud Connect.

Explanation:

Veeam Cloud Connect Service providers are listed on the Veeam website and classed at different levels Silver, Gold, Platinum. They can help implement a 3 2 1 rule by hosting your backups or replicas offsite.

https://www.veeam.com/partners/find-a-partner.html?country=CAN&type%5B%5D=VCSP

A requirement of Staged Restore is that you need to have already set up a virtual lab.

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 12]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 12]

✅ Correct answer:

True

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/staged_restore_about.html?ver=120

You can create your own test scripts for Sure Backup scripts.

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 13]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 13]

✅ Correct answer:

True

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/surebackup_job_tests_vm.html?zoom_highlight=surebackup+xml&ver=120https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/creating_xml_files.html?ver=120

ACME Productions has been hit by malware. They need to restore from backups four VMs back into the Amazon EC2 environment. They would like to ensure that the restored VMs do not contain the malware.

What can they do?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 14]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 14]

✅ Correct answer:

Perform a single restore leveraging both an antivirus and YARA file with a script detecting the malware that hit them. For the scan options, choose to "abort the VM recovery if malware is found."

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/av_scan_about.html?ver=120

A South American corporation would like all of its backup data to remain within the boundaries of the countries in which it operates. They have two data centers in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. They perform local backups and backup copies between both locations in each country. Their data protection setup is all interconnected in case of extreme situations that would warrant restoring data abroad. Backup administrators have been known to make mistakes when targeting repositories in the wrong country.

What can they do to warn administrators when such a mistake might occur?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 15]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 15]

✅ Correct answer:

In Manage Locations, create locations for each repository. This will warn them if a violation is taking place.

Explanation:

By creating location you will be made aware of when any regional infractions take place.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/locations.html?ver=120

In a scale-out repository, you can mix Performance Tier and Archive Tier object storage providers.

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 16]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 16]

✅ Correct answer:

False

Explanation:

You must use the same Performance and Tier Object Storage provider.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/archive_tier.html?zoom_highlight=archiving+tier&ver=120

For Hyper-V off-host Proxies, which two conditions must be met?

(Select two)

❌ Your answer:

Text

✅ Your answer:

Text

✅ Correct answer:

A second Hyper-V server with an identical software version.

Hardware VSS providers.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/hyperv/offhost_backup_proxy.html?ver=120

What is the difference between Forever Forward and Forward Incremental Backup chains?

(Choose all the correct answers)

❌ Your answer:

Text

✅ Your answer:

Text

✅ Correct answer:

Forward Incremental backups have synthetic full backups enabled.

Forever Forward Incremental backups do not leverage Synthetic fulls.

Forever Forward Incremental backups can also have GFS restore points.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/incremental_forever_backup.html?ver=120https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/forward_incremental_backup.html?ver=120

Is it possible to schedule synthetic full weekly jobs for Object Storage jobs in Veeam 12?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 19]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 19]

✅ Correct answer:

No, but you can turn on weekly GFS retention points, and these will be similar to weekly fulls.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/object_storage_repository.html?ver=120

Where can you leverage tags in Veeam?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 20]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 20]

✅ Correct answer:

VeeamONE Business View.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/one/monitor/business_view.html?zoom_highlight=tags&ver=120

Veeam Configuration backups can be sent to a Scale-Out Repository.

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 21]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 21]

✅ Correct answer:

False

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/sobr_limitations.html?ver=120

State Bank has just installed Veeam to leverage the immutability of object storage backups. They have planned their storage carefully, taking into account immutability and the extra retention that has to be considered. However, they are finding that their on-premises object storage is being used faster than anticipated. They also noticed that their offsite IBM Cloud object storage has an even larger discrepancy.

What could be the problem?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 22]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 22]

✅ Correct answer:

An additional piece of retention applied to object storage retention is called block generation. By default, it is 10 days or 30 days for AWS and IBM Cloud Object Storage.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/object_storage_block_generation.html?ver=120

What are two key differences between regular vSphere replication and CDP replication?

(Select two)

❌ Your answer:

Text

✅ Your answer:

Text

✅ Correct answer:

CDP relies on the VAIO I/O filter, which intercepts the data stream.

Regular replication leverages snapshots.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/cdp_hiw.html?zoom_highlight=replication+cdp&ver=120https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/replication.html?ver=120

What is the difference between Backup Copy in periodic mode and Backup Copy jobs in immediate mode?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 24]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 24]

✅ Correct answer:

Immediate mode supports Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications (Oracle RMAN, SAP HANA, SAP on Oracle).

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_copy_modes.html?zoom_highlight=backup+copy&ver=120

What does Veeam recommend you have in your CDP infrastructure?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 25]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 25]

✅ Correct answer:

At least two CDP proxies — one source proxy and one target.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/cdp_proxy.html?ver=120

Ted's Fishing Store has a midsized IT environment. However, they have never implemented Active Directory. They would like an easy way to add their physical servers into a Protection Group for backups.

What method would be best?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 26]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 26]

✅ Correct answer:

Create a CSV file and list all of the servers that need to be backed up. When servers are retired, and new ones are purchased, simply change the CSV file, as these protection groups are dynamic and will reflect the new or deleted servers.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/agents/protection_group_csv_file.html?ver=120https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/plugins/protection_group_create_csv.html?ver=120

In order to move individual workloads using the Move Backup Feature, what condition must exist?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 27]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 27]

✅ Correct answer:

The backups must be per-machine with separate metadata.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_copy_move_backups.html?zoom_highlight=move+backups&ver=120

What Veeam technologies are enabled by the Veeam vPower NFS Service?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 28]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 28]

✅ Correct answer:

Instant Disk Recovery, SureReplica, Instant Recovery.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/vpower_nfs_service.html?ver=120

Super Sunlight Sales is a chain store across Canada. They have VBR servers in 10 outlets nationwide to back up their local workloads. The IT Management team would like a way to manage licensing more effectively, ensuring they are compliant with Veeam's licensing rules and allowing different groups of administrators different privileges for restoring files.

What should they do?

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 29]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 29]

✅ Correct answer:

Install Enterprise Manager at their main Headquarters. Connect all of the backup servers to the Enterprise Manager through their VPN. Assign different roles to different groups of administrators and apply the appropriate permissions.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/em/em_about_accounts_and_roles.html?ver=120

Still Proof Technologies is a Windows-based company that has asked if Veeam can back up a Windows Failover Cluster.

❌ Your answer:

@[Question 30]

✅ Your answer:

@[Question 30]

✅ Correct answer:

They are supported by leveraging the Veeam Agent for Windows in Managed mode.

Explanation:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/agents/cluster_support.html?ver=120
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