Free VMCE2020 Sample Questions — Veeam Certified Engineer 2020

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Question 1

A company needs to maintain and verify backups at a secondary site to meet the following requirements: RTO of two hours, RPO of 12 hours, four weeks retention. Which of the following backup copy job configurations meets these requirements?

  • A. Periodic backup copy job, scheduled for a two-hour interval, with 56 restore points to retain
  • B. Periodic backup copy job, scheduled for a 12-hour interval, with 56 restore points to retain
  • C. Periodic backup copy job, scheduled for a two-hour interval, with 112 restore points to retain
  • D. Periodic backup copy job, scheduled for a 12-hour interval, with 112 restore points to retain
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Correct Answer:
B. Periodic backup copy job, scheduled for a 12-hour interval, with 56 restore points to retain
Question 2

A backup administrator is planning to install Veeam ONE. Which data collection mode collects the most data per VM?

  • A. For vCenter data only
  • B. Optimized for advanced scalability deployment
  • C. For backup data only
  • D. Optimized for typical deployment
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Correct Answer:
D. Optimized for typical deployment
Question 3

When you back up regular or standalone VMs in vCloud Director, which of the following is captured and stored in Veeam's 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
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Correct Answer:
  • A. vApp metadata
  • B. VM disk content
  • E. VM metadata
Question 4

A company is required to have a daily backup with a retention of at least six weeks. The backups are running every eight hours during the day. From the options provided, what backup job would you advise based on their SLA and best practices?

  • A. Forever forward incremental backup, with default job settings enabled
  • B. Forever forward incremental backup, with a retention of 42 restore points, savings six weekly full backups
  • C. Forever forward incremental backup, with a retention of 42 restore points
  • D. Forward incremental backup with weekly synthetic full backups and a retention of 42 days
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Correct Answer:
D. Forward incremental backup with weekly synthetic full backups and a retention of 42 days
Question 5

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 data. 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
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Correct Answer:
D. Failback to production
Question 6

A backup administrator has replicated a virtual machine between two Hyper-V hosts and now would like to automatically verify the recoverability of the replica. What would they need to do?

  • A. It is not supported to perform SureBackup replica testing for Hyper-V
  • B. Create a virtual switch with no uplinks and start the virtual machine connected to the new switch
  • C. Create a virtual lab and an application group; create a SureBackup for the replica job and run it once a day
  • D. Start the virtual machine manually using the universal application item recovery wizard
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Correct Answer:
A. It is not supported to perform SureBackup replica testing for Hyper-V
Question 7

A Veeam backup administrator, protecting all VMs in a VMware environment with backups and replicas, has been requested to run a multi-server application in an On-Demand Sandbox. The sandbox needs to stay powered on, uninterrupted, for 30 days while daily backups and replicas continue to run. How can this be done?

  • A. Create an application group and leverage regular replica restore points as the source for the application group
  • B. Create a (secondary) replication job for the required VMs that are not scheduled to run; create a SureBackup job and use these replicas as the source
  • C. Create a (secondary) replication job for the required VMs that are not scheduled to run; make an application group and use these replicas as the source
  • D. Create an application group and leverage regular backup restore points as the source for the application group
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Correct Answer:
C. Create a (secondary) replication job for the required VMs that are not scheduled to run; make an application group and use these replicas as the source
Question 8

A financial company is looking for a new backup application. One of their main requirements is the ability to have quick access to their backup data. What features in Veeam Backup & Replication support the rapid availability of data, applications and VMs? (Choose three.)

  • A. Full VM recovery without quick rollback
  • B. Microsoft SQL database, and Oracle database publishing
  • C. Instant VM Recovery
  • D. Instant VM disk recovery
  • E. Bare metal recovery
  • F. Restore to Amazon EC2
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Microsoft SQL database, and Oracle database publishing
  • C. Instant VM Recovery
  • D. Instant VM disk recovery
Question 9

When deploying an advanced single-host virtual lab in a VMware environment, what will Veeam create?

  • A. distributed virtual switch with uplink(s)
  • B. standard virtual switch with uplink(s)
  • C. distributed virtual switch without uplink(s)
  • D. standard virtual switch without uplink(s)
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Correct Answer:
D. standard virtual switch without uplink(s)
Question 10

The backup administrator configured replication for a VM from Data Center 1 to Data Center 2, which runs every day at 1 a.m. A power surge takes out Data Center 1 at 7 a.m. and the administrator fails over the replica at 8 a.m. When the power comes back on, the administrator performs the `failback` action at 2 p.m. and checks the state of the original VM. They recognize that not all data is available. What is missing?

  • A. Data from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m.
  • B. Data from 1 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  • C. Data from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  • D. Data from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.
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Correct Answer:
D. Data from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.

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