VEEAM vmce2020 online test

Question 1

A customer currently has one backup job that runs every four hours to backup their VMs in a
transaction consistent state. Which job configuration will keep all restore points safe in case the
primary site and backups go down while still being able to do a point-in-time recovery of a SQL
database from the backups on the second site?

• A. Configure a second VM backup job and schedule it to copy every four hours, starting at midnight, to a repository on the second site
• B. Configure a backup copy job in mirror mode, to a repository on the second site
• C. Configure a backup copy job in pruning mode and schedule it to copy every four hours, starting at midnight, to a repository on the second site
• D. Configure a backup copy job in pruning mode and have it copy data every day, starting at midnight, to a repository on the second site

Answer:

A

Question 2

A NAS backup job has been configured within Veeam Backup & Replication, and is completing
successfully, but restore operations have been failing for the last few days. What is causing the
failure?

• A. The backup repository is sealed
• B. The server was added by using an IQN alias which is unable to be resolved
• C. The credentials added to the share are not allowed read-write access to the share, directories or files
• D. The cache repository assigned for this file share is unavailable for restore operations

Answer:

C

Question 3

A company needs to recover a domain controller from a backup file they have on premises which was
created by the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. Which of the following would provide the
fastest access to the domain controller?

• A. Use the Veeam Explorer for Active Directory to recover the domain controller
• B. Perform an Instant VM Recovery to recover the domain controller to a VM on their VMware host
• C. Perform a bare metal recovery of their domain controller back to the original system
• D. Recover the domain controller to an AWS EC2 instance using the restore to Amazon EC2

Answer:

B

Reference:
https://www.veeam.com/blog/how-to-recover-a-domain-controller-best-practices-for-ad-protection.html

Question 4

What is the main purpose of the planned failover feature?

• A. Test the VM in a sandbox without impacting the production environment
• B. Proactively switch from running the regular VM to the replica VM
• C. Initiate a disaster recovery procedure when the main site is down
• D. Test a disaster recovery scenario without any downtime on the VM

Answer:

B

Reference:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/planned_failover.html?ver=100

Question 5

When you back up regular or standalone VMs in vCloud Director, which of the following is captured
and stored in Veeams Backup & Replication backup file? (Choose three.)

• A. vApp metadata
• B. VM disk content
• C. Raw device mapping
• D. In-guest iSCSI disk
• E. VM metadata
• F. Linked clone VM’s prior to vCenter 6.5

Answer:

ABE

Reference:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/vcloud_regular_vm_restore.html?ver=100

Question 6

A customer has a physical proxy configured for Direct Storage Access without failover to network
mode. The backup fails. What could be the issue?

• A. The disks being processed are IDE and/or SATA
• B. The datastores are properly zoned and exposed to the proxy server but in read-only mode
• C. The storage is not added into the storage infrastructure, inside the backup and replication console
• D. Write access has not been enabled on the SAN
• E. One or more of the VM disk(s) are on Wols

Answer:

D

Reference:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/direct_san_access.html?ver=100

Question 7

A company has replicated their critical application VMs to a second data center in another region.
Their key application includes two database VMs and three application VMs. For proper operation,
the database VMs need to start before the application VMs. What needs to be configured in Veeam
to prepare for a disaster
recovery situation?

• A. Use a failover plan
• B. Use a planned failover
• C. Use Instant VM Recovery
• D. Use on-click failover

Answer:

C

Reference:
https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html

Question 8

A backup job has been configured to keep three incremental restore points and a synthetic full
backup each Sunday. More restore points are present on disk than what was configured in the job.
Why?

• A. The old restore points will be deleted after the new restore chain meets the retention policy
• B. Per VM backup files are enabled in the repository
• C. The other restore points are weekly full backups, this is expected
• D. You should configure the synthetic full backup to be performed on Mondays instead

Answer:

C

Reference:
https://www.veeam.com/kb1990

Question 9

In the event a VMware VM configuration file (VMX) is missing and a restore is needed, what Veeam
restore process is the best choice for this situation?

• A. VM file restore
• B. Instant disk recovery
• C. Instant VM recovery
• D. Virtual disk restore

Answer:

A

Reference:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/vmfile_recovery.html?ver=100

Question 10

A company has been running off replicated, business-critical VMs at their disaster recovery location
since an earthquake near the primary data center occurred. Since the threat has passed, they want to
stop the replicas and switch to the VMs at the primary data center without losing dat
a. Which of the following actions is the first step they should take?

• A. Failover
• B. Permanent failover
• C. Commit failback
• D. Failback to production
• E. Planned failover
• F. Undo failover

Answer:

C