VMCE 2020 Flashcards
1
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For VM Copy Jobs, what hypervisor can be used?
A
ESXi (vSphere only)
Hyper-v is not supported for VM Copy jobs
2
Q
For VM Copy Jobs what type of repository is not supported as a copy destination.
A
Scale-out Backup Repository
3
Q
What can be used to create an independent fully-functioning copy of a VM or VM container on the selected storage?
A
VM Copy Job
4
Q
Veeam Zip uses what by default to quiesce VMs to create a transactionally consistent image before backup?
- VMWare (ESXi)
- Hyper-V
A
- VMware Tools Quiescence
2. Microsoft Hyper-V Quiescing
5
Q
To perform incremental backup, Veeam Backup & Replication needs to know what data blocks have changed since the previous job session. For VMware VMs what native feature does it employ?
A
VMware vSphere Changed Block Tracking (CBT)
6
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For VMware to utilize its native VMware vSphere Changed Block Tracking, what VM hardware version (or newer) must the VM be.
A
VM Hardware Version 7
7
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For Hyper-v what is utilized to keep track of changed data blocks?
- For Hyper-V Servers 2012 R2 and Earlier?
- For Hyper-V Servers 2016 and Later?
- What Minimum VM configuration version?
A
- Veeam proprietary changed block tracking mechanism (CBT)
- Resilient Changed Tracking
- VM configuration version 8.0 or later
8
Q
What edition of Veeam Backup and Replication is needed to run and setup SureBackup jobs for backup verification?
A
Veeam Backup and Replication Enterprise Edition.
9
Q
What are the three stand alone Veeam utilities ?
A
Veeam Extract.exe Utility
Veeam.Backup.DBConfig.exe Utility
Veeam Backup Validator
10
Q
What Utility can be used to recover machines from backup files without the need for the VBR server?
A
Veeam Extract.exe Utility
11
Q
What utility allows you to manage connection settings such as connecting to a different DB or changing the authentication method for the DB connection for Veeam Backup and Replication or Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager?
A
Veeam.Backup.DBConfig.Exe utility
12
Q
What utility can be used to quickly verify the integrity of any backup file, without extracting the VM data from the archive.
A
Veeam Backup Validator
13
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If you want to use the extract utility with backup files located on any of the extents of your scale-out backup repository, you must make sure the backup files are what?
A
Full and incremental backup files must be located on the same extent in a Scale Out Backup Repository.
14
Q
To transform an active backup chain into inactive, a new what must be created for this chain?
A
Active full (or synthetic full) backup file
15
Q
In a Scale-out Backup Repository, what three different tiers of storage can be available?
A
Performance Tier
Capacity Tier
Archive Tier
16
Q
For a scale-out backup repository, what tier is used for the fastest access to the data. It consists of one or more backup repositories.
A
Performance
17
Q
For Scale-out backup repositories, what tier is an additional level for storing data that needs to be accessed less frequently? However, you still can restore your data directly from it. This tier consists of one cloud-based or on-premises object storage repository.
A
Capacity Tier
18
Q
For Scale-out backup repositories, what tier is an additional level for archive storage of infrequently accessed data. For restore from this tier, data must undergo preparation process.
A
Archive Tier
19
Q
The Guest-Interaction Proxy infrastructure component sits between the backup server and processed VMs. This component is needed for backup or replication jobs to perform what three processes for VMs?
A
Application-aware Processing
Guest file system indexing
Transaction logs processing
20
Q
The guest interaction proxy server deploys the non-persistent runtime components or persistent agent components in only what VM OS?
A
Microsoft Windows OS
21
Q
In regard to Guest Interaction Proxies, VMs running with a non-Windows OS, the non-persistent runtime components or persistent agent components are deployed by what Veeam server?
If the VM OS is Windows based, where are the non-persistent runtime components or persistent agent components deployed from?
A
Backup and Replication Server
Directly from the Guest Interaction Proxy
22
Q
For all NDMP devices, the backup chain stored on tapes will consist of how many restore points maximum? What restore point will Veeam Backup & Replication force an active full?
A
10 Maximum Restore Points
11th Restore Point will Force Active Full
23
Q
What allows you to synthesize a complete and independent full backup file out of selected restore points that are located in your backup repositories. That is, you can transform any incremental or reverse-incremental backup chain into a standalone .vbk file.
A
Exporting backups
24
Q
In Hyper-V, during replication incremental job sessions, the source Veeam Data Mover uses (1.)WHAT to retrieve only those data blocks that have changed since the previous job session?
If it is unavailable, it instead will use (2.)WHAT to detect blocks that have changed since the previous job session?
A
- Changed Block Tracking (CBT)
2. Replica Metadata
25
To minimize the workload on the production infrastructure and reduce data traffic, you can use what two advanced replication technologies when replicating to a secondary site.
1. Replica From Backup
| 2. Replica Seeding and Mapping
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What advanced replication technology does not address hosts and storage in the production environment to read VM data. Instead, it always reads data from the latest restore point in the backup chain, either full or incremental.
Replica from Backup
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What advanced replication technology uses the backup file only during the first run of a replication job. To further build VM replica restore points, the replication job addresses the production environment and reads VM data from the source storage.
Replica Seeding
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What advanced replication technology can be used when on the host in the DR site, you have ready-to-use copies of the original VMs? Veeam will synchronize the state of these ready-to-use VMs with the latest state of the original VMs and will use these VMs as replicas.
Replica Mapping
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If seeding or mapping is enabled in a replication job, all VMs in the job MUST be covered with seeding or mapping. If a VM neither has a seed, nor is mapped to an existing VM, what will happen to those VMs?
They will be skipped from processing
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What limits how far to roll back in time, and defines the maximum allowable amount of lost data measured in time from a failure occurrence to the last valid backup.
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
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What is related to downtime and represents how long it takes to restore from the incident until normal operations are available to users
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
32
For replication Re-IP Rules, what can be used to specify a range of IPs for the Source and Target VMs?
An Asterisk (*)
Do not use 0 to specify IP address ranges.
33
What is a Veeam technology based on Microsoft VSS?
Application-Aware Processing
34
What is responsible for quiescing applications on the VM and creating a consistent view of application data on the VM guest OS.
Microsoft VSS
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In a vSphere environment, to use application-aware processing, you must have what installed on the VM Guest OS?
VMWare Tools
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If a VM runs an application that does not support Microsoft VSS such as MySQL, Veeam will not be able to utilize Microsoft VSS and application-aware processing for this VM. To process such VMs, you can use what?
VMware Tools quiescence with pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts
37
What are the two different types of backup copy jobs?
Immediate Copy (Mirroring)
Periodic Copy (Pruning)
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What backup copy mode copies every restore point as soon as it appears in the primary backup repository? This mode copies all backups and transaction logs.
Immediate Copy (Mirroring)
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This backup copy mode periodically copies the latest available restore point only. This mode allows for selecting which backups to process to help further reduce bandwidth.
Periodic Copy (Pruning)
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Within one backup copy job, can you process workloads from both VMWare and Hyper-V backups OR process workloads from both VMs and physical machines?
No, Veeam supports processes workloads of one platform only per job.
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In a VMWare environment, what types of SureBackup virtual lab configurations are supported?
Basic Single-host Virtual Lab
Advanced Single-host Virtual Lab
Advanced Multi-host Virtual Lab
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In a Hyper-V environment, what types of SureBackup virtual lab configurations are supported?
Basic Single-host Virtual Lab
| Advanced Single-host Virtual Lab
43
To perform recovery verification, you need to create what three objects?
Application Group
Virtual Lab
SureBackup Job
44
During recovery verification, the verified VM may need to be started with a group of VMs on which it is dependent. What is that group of VMs?
An Application Group
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What is the isolated virtual environment in which the verified VM and VMs from the application group are started and tested.
The Virtual Lab
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What is a task to perform recovery verification. You can run this job manually or schedule it to run automatically by schedule.
SureBackup Job
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To verify VMs with a SureBackup job, you can instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to run predefined tests. What are these three tests?
Heartbeat Test
Ping Test
Application Test
48
In a VMWare environment, SureBackups predefined heartbeat test waits for a signal from WHAT installed on the VM to determine that the VM guest OS is running?
VMWare Tools
49
What SureBackup predefined test sends ping requests to the VM from the backup server and checks if the VM can respond to them?
Ping Test
50
What SureBackup predefined test waits for applications inside the VM to start and runs a script against these applications?
Application Test
51
During the SureBackup predefined application test for DNS servers, domain controllers, Global Catalog servers, mail servers and web servers, Veeam uses what process to verify the server has passed?
Veeam uses a script that probes an application-specific port. As an example it probes port 389 for a domain controller.
52
During the SureBackup predefined application test For Microsoft SQL Server, Veeam uses what process to verify the server has passed?
A script that attempts to connect to instances and databases on the Microsoft SQL Server.
53
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During SureBackup verification tests, to define whether the script has completed successfully or not, Veeam Backup & Replication publishes the following return codes in the SureBackup job session statistics?
Code:
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
```
0 — test is passed successfully.
1 — you use a wrong syntax for the script command.
2 — unable to connect to Microsoft SQL Server.
3 — all instances are excluded from the check.
4 — error occurred getting the list of databases.
5 — unknown error
6 — one or more databases are not accessible.
54
To run the SureBackup predefined heartbeat test for a Hyper-V VM, you must have WHAT installed inside the VM? If it is not installed, this test will be skipped.
Hyper-V Integration Services
55
Even if you use the Microsoft SQL Server authentication mode for your SureBackup job, in some cases, you may need to specify credentials of the account to connect to the machine on which Microsoft SQL Server is installed. Where do you set this?
Use the Credentials tab in the application group or SureBackup job settings.
56
What are the three Stabilization Algorithms used by SureBackup Job Processing?
Stabilization by IP
Stabilization by heartbeat
Stabilization by Maximum allowed boot time
57
What SureBackup job stabilization algorithm is used if the VM has neither VMware Tools installed, nor NICs and mapped networks for them? Veeam waits for a time specified, which is considered to be a stabilization period for the VM
Stabilization by Maximum allowed boot time
58
For SureBackup jobs, the stabilization process cannot exceed what specified time? For this reason, you should be careful when specifying this value.
Maximum allowed boot time
59
For SureBackup jobs, Veeam waits for the applications installed in the VM, for example, Microsoft SQL Server, to start. What is defined in settings of the SureBackup job and by default equals 120 seconds?
Application initialization period
60
For Veeam One, if you connect to the internet through a Proxy server, WHAT settings must be configured on the machine hosting the Veeam One Server component?
Winhttp proxy settings
61
In Veeam One, what allows you to forecast the number and type of alarms that will be sent for a specific infrastructure object within a specified time interval?
Alarm Modeling
62
In the Veeam One client you can import and export categorization data and synchronize it with other applications. Veeam ONE offers what synchronization possibilities?
Importing Categorization Model from vCenter Server and System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Importing and Exporting Using CSV File
63
What Veeam technology helps you protect mission-critical VMware virtual machines when data loss for seconds or minutes is unacceptable?
Continuous data protection (CDP)
64
What vSphere versions are currently supported for Continuous data protection (CDP)?
vSphere version 6.5 and later
65
What Veeam process allows for the immediate restore of different workloads as VMs to your production environment by running them directly from the compressed and deduplicated backup files?
Instant VM Recovery
66
What are the following file types used for?
.VBK
.VIB
.VRB
VBK – Full backup file
VIB – Incremental backup file
VRB – Reverse incremental backup file
67
What are the following file types used for?
.VBM
.BCO
.VSB
VBM – Replica metadata file
BCO – Configuration backup file
VSB – Virtual synthetic backup
68
What are the following file types used for?
.VLB
.VSM
.VOM
VLB – A generic Veeam database log
VSM – Microsoft SQL Server transaction log backup
VOM – Database log file (Oracle)
69
What are the following file types used for?
.DIT
.MDF
.EDB
DIT – Active directory database file
MDF – Microsoft SharePoint content database file
EDB – Microsoft Exchange mailbox database
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What are the following file types used for?
.ERM
.RCT/MRT
.CTP
.DEM
```
ERM – Scale out backup repository
RCT/MRT – Complements CBT data within Hyper-V 2016 Resilient Change Tracking
CTP – Used by the Veeam CBT driver to keep track of changed data block in Hyper-V enviroments
DEM – Private and public encryption key – Enterprise manager
71
During an Instant VM Disk Recovery, what happens to the VM's existing disk during this process?
Veeam unmounts and deletes the existing disk
72
For Instant VM Disk Recovery, Veeam writes changes made to the recovered disks to WHAT log files on the vPower NFS server?
Redo Log Files
73
What two types of Instant VM Disk Recovery options are available?
Instant VM Disk Recovery
| Instant First Class Disk (FCD) Recovery
74
Regarding Instant VM Disk Recovery option, what type of disk is created as an improved VMDK that allow to perform different tasks: create snapshots, delete and restore data stored on VMDK without attaching these disks to a VM.
First Class Disk (FCD)
Created using the Instant First Class Disk (FCD) Recovery option.
75
Regarding replica failover, before you fail over to a replica VM, what two prerequisites must first be met?
VM must have been replicated successfully at lest once
VM Replica must be in the READY state
76
If you know that your primary VMs are about to go offline, you can proactively switch the workload to their replicas. A WHAT is smooth manual switching from a primary VM to its replica with minimum interrupting in operation.
Planned Failover
77
If you have a number of VMs running interdependent applications, you need to failover them one by one, as a group. To do this automatically, you can prepare a WHAT?
Failover Plan
78
Regarding failovers, in a WHAT, you set the order in which VMs must be processed and time delays for VMs. This helps to ensure that some VMs, such as a DNS server, are already running at the time the dependent VMs start
Failover Plan
79
What is the maximum number of VMs that can be started simultaneously in a Failover Plan?
10 VMs
80
During a planned failover, Veeam always retrieves VM data from WHERE, even if the replication job uses the backup as a data source?
The Production Infrastructure
81
If you start a planned failover for several VMs that are replicated with one replication job, will these VMs be processed one by one or in parallel.
VMs will be processed one by one
82
During the planned failover, Veeam creates HOW MANY helper restore points that are not deleted afterwards? These restore points will appear in the list of restore points for this VM; you can use them later to roll back to the necessary VM replica state.
2 helper restore points.
This might cause older restore points to be purged if the recovery point limit is reached.
83
You cannot use what type of repository as a target for VeeamZIP jobs.
Veeam Cloud Connect repository
84
The vPower technology enables WHAT six features?
1. Recovery verification
2. Instant VM Recovery
3. Instant VM Disk Recovery
4. Staged restore
5. Universal Application-Item Recovery (U-AIR)
6. Multi-OS file-level restore
85
What type of datastores are service datastores that can be used for vPower operations only. You cannot use them as regular VMware vSphere datastores — for example, you cannot place files of replicated VMs on such datastores.
Veeam vPower NFS datastores
86
A gateway server is an auxiliary backup infrastructure component that “bridges” the backup server and backup repository. The gateway server is required if you deploy what types of backup repositories?
Shared folder backup repositories (CiFS/SMB/NFS)
Dell EMC Data Domain dedupe appliance
HPE StoreOnce dedupe appliance
87
Veeam Backup & Replication collects VM data, transforms and transports it to target with the help of WHAT?
Veeam Data Movers
88
Veeam uses two-service architecture — How does Veeam use the two Data Movers to communicate with each other and maintain a stable connection between repositories?
One Veeam Data Mover controls interaction with the source host, and the other one controls interaction with the target backup repository.
89
When creating a backup, in what two ways can you set your retention policy?
1. Keep the last N restore points
2. Keep all restore points created during the last N days
(Minimum daily retention is 3 days)
90
What is Veeam's default backup mode set to when creating a new backup job?
Forward Incremental with Synthetic fulls enabled.
91
Where can you set the Backup modes at for your different backup jobs?
In the backup job's storage section under the advanced options.
92
What backup mode is recommended for tape backups?
Forward Incremental backups
93
For Forward Incremental backups, explain why there would be more restore points on disk than what's specified for your retention policy?
Veeam will remove a full backup chain only after the last increment in your chain meets your retention policy.
94
After changing the Data Compression Settings on an existing backup job will you:
1. Need to create a new full backup for the settings to take effect?
2. Will these settings apply to previously created backup files?
1. No, a new full backup does NOT need to be created
| 2. No, previously created backup files will NOT be affected.
95
After changing the Data Deduplication Settings on an existing backup job will you:
1. Need to create a new full backup for the settings to take effect?
2. Will these settings apply to previously created backup files?
1. No, a new full backup does NOT need to be created
| 2. No, previously created backup files will NOT be affected.
96
After changing the Storage Optimization Settings on an existing backup job will you:
1. Need to create a new full backup for the settings to take effect?
2. Will these settings apply to previously created backup files?
1. Yes, a new full backup needs to be created
| 2. No, previously created backup files will NOT be affected.
97
If a VM backup snapshot failed to create for a backup job, what are a couple good first steps to start troubleshooting?
Validate snapshot can manually be created
Test with VMware Tools Quiescence enabled in the job
(If manual snapshot creation fails, VMWare should be involved)
98
Regarding Veeam Agents, what can be backed up for Windows OS?
Workstations
Servers
Failover Clusters
99
Regarding Veeam Agents, what can be backed up for Linux OS?
Workstations
| Servers
100
What are the two job modes that can be selected in regard to Veeam Agent backup jobs?
Managed by backup server
| Managed by agent
101
File share backup jobs in Veeam can read data from the what four sources?
CIFS path
NFS path
Path to the storage snapshot folder
VSS snapshot
102
For Backup Proxies, it is strongly recommended that you define task limitation settings using what rule?
1 Task = 1 CPU Core
103
For Backup Repositories, it is strongly recommended that you assign how much RAM per CPU core?
2GB RAM per CPU Core
104
For Backup Repositories, synthetic operations performed in the backup repository (such as synthetic full backups) are also regarded as tasks. What task count would be used for the two different backup chains?
Regular backup chains
Per-Machine backup chains
Regular backup chains create 1 task per job
Per-Machine backup chains creates 1 task per every VM chain (that is, every VM added to the job)
105
For file share backups jobs, define the task limitation setting using what rule?
1 Task = 1 File Share, Root Share, Directory, single file, etc.
106
Instant File Level Recovery (IFLR) will allow you to restore from what 3 file systems?
FAT
NTFS
ReFS
107
What Guest OS File Recovery method will help you restore files from Linux, Solaris, BSD, Novell Storage Services, Unix, Mac and other file systems?
Multi-OS file-level restore
108
Explain the method used that will allow you to restore files from file systems the other methods will not.
Using Instant VM Disk Recovery and manually copying the files from the mounted disk.
109
What Hypervisors support:
1. SureBackup
2. SureReplica
1. VMWare (ESXi) and Hyper-V
| 2. VMWare (ESXi)
110
Veeam offers the WAN acceleration that combines what 4 technologies?
Network traffic compression
Multistreaming upload
Global data deduplication
Variable block size deduplication.
111
What edition of Veeam is required for the setup and use of WAN Acceleration?
Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions
112
Regarding WAN Accelerators, what mode does not leverage the global cache, but utilizes a faster compression method, optimized digests processing and an alternative deduplication mechanism?
What WAN connection speed is it recommended you turn this mode on?
High Bandwidth Mode
100 Mbps
113
WHAT technology helps with the recovery of VM files (VMX, VMXF, NVRAM, VMDK including flat files) if any of these files are deleted or the datastore is corrupted.
VM Files Restore
114
Veeam Backup & Replication uses the same image-level backup for WHAT data recovery operations?
All Data Recovery Operations
115
Instead of restoring an entire VM or VM disk from a backup file, Veeam will recover only those data blocks that are necessary to revert the VM or VM disk to an earlier point in time. What technology allows for this incremental data restore?
Quick Rollback
116
If a VM virtual disk becomes corrupted for some reason, what technology will allow you to restore it from the image-based backup to any point in time.
Virtual Disks Restore
117
During a Virtual Disk Restore, if the VM has several VM disks, will Veeam restore the VM disks one by one or in parallel?
Veeam restores VM disks in parallel.
118
What Veeam technology allows for the scanning of machine data with antivirus software before restoring the machine to the production environment?
Secure Restore
119
During Secure Restore, Veeam mounts disks of the machine that you plan to restore to the WHAT server. On this server, Veeam triggers an antivirus to scan files from the mounted disks.
Mount Server
120
What general setting allows for the control of the I/O load on the production storage where VMs reside?
Do you have the option to set this for each datastore?
Storage Latency Control
The I/O latency limit for every storage in the virtual infrastructure separately.
121
What edition of Veeam is required to enable storage latency control?
Storage latency control option is available in the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions
122
When restoring a VM from tape, you can choose between two options, what are those options?
Restore VMs directly to infrastructure
| Restore VMs through a staging repository
123
Regarding tape restores, what restore process publishes the VMs to the virtual infrastructure copying the VM data directly from tape.
Recommended if you want to restore one VM or a small number of VMs from a large backup that contains a lot of VMs.
Restore Directly to Infrastructure
124
Regarding tape restores, what restore process temporarily copies the whole restore point to a backup repository or a folder on disk. After that Veeam starts a regular VM restore.
Recommended if you want to restore a lot of VMs from a backup as the disk provides a much faster access to random data blocks than tape.
Restore Through Staging Repository
125
Veeam Backup & Replication supports what versions of SNMP?
SNMP versions 1 and 2
126
You can set up general settings for Veeam. These settings are applied to all jobs, backup infrastructure components and other objects managed by the backup server. What six primary settings are defined here?
```
I/O Settings
Email Notification Settings
SNMP Settings
Other Notification Settings
Session History Settings
Configuring Security Settings
```
127
In the Security tab for in Veeam general settings, what three settings can you configure?
TLS Certificates
Linux Hosts Authentication
Audit Logs Locations
128
In the General Settings in Veeam, what is available for configuration in the "Other Notification Settings" tab?
Low local disk space
Support contract expiration
New product versions, available updates and patches
129
What are the three common deployment scenarios for Veeam Backup and Replication.
Simple Deployment
Advanced Deployment
Distributed Deployment
130
What deployment scenario good for small virtual environments? In this scenario, Veeam and all services needed for data protection tasks are installed on a single Windows-based machine.
Simple Deployment Scenario
Recommended in a Simple Deployment Scenario to install Veeam B&R on a VM to take advantage of virtual appliance transport mode.
131
In large-scale virtual environments with a large number of jobs, the load on the backup server is heavy. In this case, it is recommended that you use WHAT Veeam deployment scenario which moves the backup workload to dedicated backup infrastructure components?
Advanced Deployment Scenario
132
WHAT deployment scenario is recommended for large geographically dispersed virtual environments with multiple backup servers installed across different sites. These backup servers are normally federated under Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.
Distributed Deployment Scenario
133
WHAT is an architecture component that sits between the backup server and other components of the backup infrastructure? While the backup server administers tasks, this component processes jobs and delivers backup traffic.
Backup Proxy
134
What are the 5 basic tasks that the Backup Proxy handles?
Retrieving VM data from the production storage
Compressing
Deduplicating
Encrypting
Sending it to the backup repository or another proxy (in the case of replica jobs)
135
Depending on your backup architecture, the backup proxy can use one of WHAT 3 data transport modes?
Direct storage access
Virtual appliance
Network
136
Regarding backup proxies, Veeam installs what two components and services on each proxy?
Veeam Installer Service
| Veeam Data Mover
137
What service is installed on any Veeam managed Windows server that analyzes the system, installs and upgrades necessary components and services depending on the role selected for the server?
Veeam Installer Service
138
What component performs data processing tasks on behalf of Veeam B&R, such as retrieving source VM data, performing data deduplication and compression, and storing backed-up data on the target storage?
Veeam Data Mover
139
What Transport Mode reads/writes data directly from/to the storage system where VM data or backups are located? This mode comprises two seperate transport modes.
Direct Storage Access Transport Mode
| Direct SAN access and Direct NFS access
140
WHAT transport mode is recommended for VMs whose disks are located on shared VMFS SAN LUNs that are connected to ESXi hosts over FC, FCoE, iSCSI, and on shared SAS storage.
Direct SAN Access Transport Mode
141
WHAT transport mode is the recommended transport mode for VMs whose disks are located on NFS datastores?
Direct NFS Access Transport Mode
142
WHAT transport mode can be used with any infrastructure configuration? In this mode, data is retrieved through the ESXi host over LAN using the Network Block Device protocol (NBD).
Network Transport Mode
143
WHAT transport mode is recommended if the role of a backup proxy is assigned to a VM? This mode allows for the attaching devices to a VM while the VM is running?
Virtual Appliance Transport Mode
144
WHAT four deduplicating storage appliances can be added as backup repositories
Dell EMC Data Domain
ExaGrid
HPE StoreOnce
Quantum DXi
145
With direct attached storage, you can add what two virtual and physical servers as backup repositories?
Microsoft Windows server
| Linux server
146
Network attached storage: You can add what two network share types as backup repositories?
SMB (CIFS) Shares
| NFS Shares
147
To communicate with an SMB and NFS backup repository, Veeam uses two Data Mover Services that are responsible for data processing and transfer. Where are these Data Mover Services installed?
Veeam Data Mover on the backup proxy
| Veeam Data Mover on the gateway server
148
To communicate with Windows and Linux based repositories, Veeam uses two Data Mover Services that are responsible for data processing and transfer. Where are these Data Mover Services installed?
Veeam Data Mover on the backup proxy
| Veeam Data Mover on the Windows/Linux backup repository
149
When using Dell EMC Data Domain repository, to support the use of DD Boost technology, Veeam leverages WHAT two Dell EMC Data Domain components?
DD Boost Library
| DD Boost Server
150
What dedupe appliance uses adaptive deduplication?
ExaGrid Dedupe Appliance
Data deduplication is performed on the target storage system. After VM data is written to disk, it analyses bytes in the newly transferred data portions and compares versions of data over time and stores only the differences to disk.
151
To work with HPE StoreOnce, Veeam leverages the HPE StoreOnce Catalyst technology and what two HPE StoreOnce components?
HPE StoreOnce Catalyst agent
| HPE StoreOnce appliance
152
What dedupe appliance, during backup data transfer, analyses blocks in the data stream? Instead of copying redundant data blocks it uses reference pointers to existing blocks on the storage device.
Quantum DXi Dedupe Appliance
| Quantum’s patented data deduplication technology
153
Veeam Backup & Replication supports WHAT 2 types of external repositories?
Amazon S3
| Azure Blob
154
What are all the compression levels offered for data compression?
```
None
Dedupe-Friendly
Optimal
High
Extreme
```
155
What is a synthetic full backup?
A synthetic full backup is identical to a regular full backup. Synthetic full backup produces a VBK file that contains data of the whole VM. This full backup is synthesized from data you already have in the backup repository.
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What is an Active Full backup?
The active full backup produces a full backup of a VM, just as if you run the backup job for the first time. Veeam Backup & Replication retrieves data for the whole VM from the source, compresses and deduplicates it, and stores it to the full backup file — VBK.
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What is a Forever Forward Incremental Backup?
The forever forward incremental backup method produces a backup chain that consists of the first full backup file (VBK) and a set of forward incremental backup files (VIB) following it.
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The __________ backup method produces a backup chain that consists of the first full backup file (VBK) and a set of forward incremental backup files (VIB) following it. Additionally, the ___________ backup chain contains synthetic full and/or active full backup files that “split” the backup chain into shorter series.
Forward Incremental
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What is a Reverse Incremental Backup?
The reverse incremental backup method produces a backup chain that consists of the last full backup file (VBK) and a set of reverse incremental backup files (VRB) preceding it. The most recent restore point in the backup chain is always a full backup.
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What are all the backup infrastructure components?
```
Backup Server
Backup & Replication Console
Virtualization Servers and Hosts
Backup Proxy (VMware)
File Proxy
Cache Repository
Backup Repository
External Repository
Scale-Out Backup Repository
Guest Interaction Proxy
Gateway Server
Mount Server
Veeam vPower NFS Service
WAN Accelerators
Log Shipping Servers
Tape Servers
NDMP Servers
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
```
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What are the 4 Deduplicating storage appliances that can be used as backup repositories?
Dell EMC Data Domain
ExaGrid
HPE StoreOnce
Quantum DXi
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What are the 2 Dell EMC Data Domain components that VB&R leverages?
DD Boost Library
| DD Boost Server
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Dell EMC Data domain does not support what backup method?
Reverse Incremental
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Does Dell EMC Data Domain with DD Boost guarantee job performance?
No. It reduces the load on the network and improves the network throughput.
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HPE StoreOnce uses what two components with VB&R?
HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Agent
| HPE StoreOnce Appliance
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What backup methods does HPE StoreOnce support?
Forward Incremental Backup
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When communicating with Quantum DXi and ExaGrid deduplicating storage devices, what data mover services are responsible for data processing and transfers?
Veeam Data Mover on the backup proxy
| Veeam Data Mover on the appliance
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When communicating with Dell EMC Data Domain and HPE StoreOnce deduplicating storage devices, what data mover servers are responsible for data processing and transfers?
Veeam Data Mover on the backup proxy
| Veeam Data Mover on the gateway server
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What functions does the Backup Server do?
The backup server is a Windows-based physical or virtual machine on which Veeam Backup & Replication is installed. It is the core component in the backup infrastructure that fills the role of the “configuration and control center”. The backup server performs all types of administrative activities:
Coordinates backup, replication, recovery verification, and restore tasks
Controls job scheduling and resource allocation
Is used to set up and manage backup infrastructure components as well as specify global settings for the backup infrastructure
In addition to its primary functions, a newly deployed backup server also performs the role of the default backup repository, storing backups locally.
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What are all the backup server services and components?
```
Veeam Backup Service
Veeam Guest Catalog Service
Mount Service
Veeam Backup & Replication Configuration Database
Veeam Backup and Replication Console
Veeam Backup PowerShell Snap-In
```
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Veeam licenses Veeam Backup & Replication in two ways:
per instance and per socket.
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What are the 3 Types of Veeam Software licenses?
Subscription
Perpetual
Rental
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What is a VeeamZIP?
VeeamZIP is similar to a full VM backup. The VeeamZIP job always produces a full backup file (VBK) that acts as an independent restore point. You can store the backup file to a backup repository, to a local folder on the backup server or to a network share.
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What is quiescence?
When you back up or replicate a running VM, you need to quiesce or ‘freeze’ the VM to bring its file system and application data to a consistent state. Data quiescence is crucial for highly transactional applications. It helps create transactionally consistent backups or replicas and guarantees the safety of application data.
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What are all the VMware VM Guest OS Guest Processing Options?
```
Application-aware processing
Pre-freeze and Post-thaw scripts
Transaction log truncation
Transaction logs backup up for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle
VM guest file system indexing
VM Guest OS files exclusion
```
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What are the 3 Hyper-V GUest Quiensce methods?
```
Online Backup (Hyper-V method)
Offline Backup (Hyper-V method)
Crash-consistent backup (Veeam method)
```
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What are the 3 GFS flags you can use to mark a backup file for long-term retention?
weekly (W), monthly (M), and yearly (Y).
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GFS does not apply to what type of backup chains?
Reverse Incremental backup chains
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What version of Veeam must be running before you can upgrade to version 10?
Version 9.5 Update 3 or later
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What is a Quick Backup?
Quick backup lets you perform on-demand incremental backup for VMs. You can use quick backup if you want to produce an additional restore point for one or more VMs in a backup job and do not want to configure a new job or modify the existing one.
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What are media pools?
logical containers created in Veeam Backup & Replication to organize and administer tapes.
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What are the 3 types of media pools?
Service Media Pools - are created automatically and are used for automatic tape administration.
Media Pools - are created by user and contain tapes for backups.
GFS Media Pools - are created by user and contain tapes for GFS backups.
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Media Sets?
a set of tapes used for continuously writing backup data. Media set is one of the parameters in media pool configuration. Always starts with a free tape.
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Backup Set?
The set of files that are archived to tape within one tape job session is a backup set.
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What are Vaults?
Vaults are logical containers that help you to additionally organize offline tapes. When the tapes are recorded and moved offsite, you need to have easy ways to manage data on such tapes. Visualize information about tapes.
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What levels can utilize data encryption?
```
Backup job
Transaction log backup job
backup copy job
VeeamZIP
Tapes in media pools
```
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What is a backup copy?
With backup copy, you can create several instances of the same backup file and copy them to secondary (target) backup repositories for long-term storage. Target backup repositories can be located in the same site as the source backup repository or can be deployed offsite. The backup copy file has the same format as the primary backup, so you can restore necessary data directly from it in case of a disaster.
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Why is a Quick Rollback significant?
During failback with the quick rollback option enabled, Veeam Backup & Replication does not calculate digests for entire VM replica disks to get the difference between the original VM and VM replica. Instead, it queries CBT to get information about disk sectors that have changed, and calculates digests only for these disk sectors.
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When is it recommended that you use a quick rollback?
It is recommended that you use quick rollback if you failback to the original VM after a problem that has occurred at the level of the guest OS of the VM replica — for example, there has been an application error or a user has accidentally deleted a file on the VM replica guest OS. Do not use quick rollback if the problem has occurred at the VM hardware level, storage level or due to a power loss.
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Which transport mode can not use quick rollback?
The Direct SAN access transport mode cannot be used for quick rollback
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What are the 3 requirements for a quick rollback?
Must failback to the VM in the original location
CBT Must be enabled for the original VM
The VM replica must be created with the Use changed block tracking data option enabled.
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What are the two Veeam One deployments?
Advanced
| Typical
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What are the structural components of Veeam ONE?
```
Veeam ONE server
Veeam ONE Web UI
Veeam ONE Monitor client
Veeam ONE Database
Veeam ONE Agent - Server & Client modes
```
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What are the limitations for Veeam ONE installations?
Can't install Veeam ONE server, Web UI, database or agent on a DC.
Network configurations that use IPv6 addresses are not supported.
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What are the two software components of Veeam ONE?
Veeam ONE Monitor
| Veeam ONE Reporter
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Veeam ONE Monitor
Primary component used for monitoring virtual environment and Veeam B & R infrastructure. Console you can manage/interact with alarms, monitoring data, analyze performance of components, tracking efficiency, generate reports, troubleshoot issues and administer monitoring settings.
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Veeam ONE Reporter
Provides a set of dashboards and reports that allow you to verify config issues, optimize resource allocation and utilization, track implemented changes, plan capacity growth and track whether mission critical workloads are properly protected.
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What are the two Veeam ONE modes?
What is each modes functionality?
Sever - Agent is responsible for analyzing log data and signature updates. Included in installation package and deployed on machine running Veeam ONE Monitor server.
Client - Agent is responsible for collecting logs and executing remediation actions on VB&R servers. By default, this Agent is deployed on VB&R servers when you connect these servers to Veeam ONE.
