VMCE practice exam – Veeam Certified Engineer

ChinaBox Inc., a global franchise company, has recently suffered from an outage due to severe weather at its primary data center. New corporate policy dictates mission-critical services have an RPO of 3 hours, with the ability to go back as far as 12 hours in time and an RTO of 2 hours. Which definitions match the policy?

A backup administrator is investigating reports that backups are not always immediately being copied to the offsite backup repository. The customer has strict data protection policies that require alerts to be issued automatically if a backup is not copied within one day. How should the backup administrator proceed?

A backup administrator is investigating poor performance when copying backups through the newly deployed Veeam WAN Accelerators over a 1 Gbit/s WAN link. Tests using iperf show full bandwidth is available. What should be investigated?

A customer has one backup server per site. Backup jobs are always created on a backup server on the same site. The backup administrator has recently created a new backup copy job on the Backup Server located in the Disaster Recovery (DR) site to copy backups between the customer’s HPE StoreOnce in the production site and the HPE StoreOnce in the DR site. It has been discovered that no backups are being copied. What is the cause?

Dalrymple Dalrymple & Dalrymple, a fierce Scottish law firm, heavily depends on Oracle databases for all journaling. Veeam Backup & Replication has been deployed and while most backup jobs are successfully completing, the Oracle backup job displays the warning “Oracle database instance state is not valid for property collection”. What could be the cause of this?

Knights Need A Shrubbery Inc., a plant nursery located in Australia, has deployed a backup job configured to utilize the forever forward incremental backup mode with 7 days retention to protect a single virtual machine. Currently, the virtual machine has a single 10 TB virtual disk (VMDK) attached but the vSphere administrator was tasked with reducing the VMDK to 8 TB. The vSphere administrator attached a new additional 8 TB VMDK and used Partition Magic to clone the contents from the 10 TB VMDK to the 8 TB VMDK and then deleted the 10 TB VMDK and confirmed the virtual machine is successfully operating. An operations engineer is asking the backup team what will happen when the backup job runs tonight?

Ni!, a knighted role-playing society, has configured a backup job with a single vSphere tag added named BackMeUp as the container. Currently, 25 virtual machines (VMs) are tagged with the tag BackMeUp. In which order will the VMs be processed during backup?

Bryant Brothers, a 535.000-acre ranch in Texas USA, has just deployed a new Veeam Backup & Replication setup and configured a backup job, and added their entire standalone VMware ESXi host with the reverse incremental backup mode and 150-day retention for all nine virtual machines. The backup job is targeting a Linux-based repository on an XFS formatted drive. The job has been completed successfully for 30 days. The ranch owner discovers the cattle reporting application virtual machine was accidentally deleted three weeks ago and requests it to be restored from the backups. A consultant is unable to restore the virtual machine. What is the cause?

Bundgaard Enterprises, a house renovation company in the city of Vester Nebel, is in the process of creating a File Share backup job and notices a warning stating “Loss protection disabled” in the advanced settings of the job. The company has lost data in the past before switching to Veeam Backup & Replication and asks what this means?

Bundgaard Enterprises, a house renovation company in the city of Vester Nebel, has created and successfully run three backup jobs for the same mission-critical virtual machine (VM) for the last year. One daily backup job, one weekly backup job, and one monthly backup job. An operations engineer is about to start patching the application and has requested the backup team to perform a quick backup of the VM. The backup administrator has been asked to confirm what will happen when executing the quick backup?

Yaman Get To The Chopper, a freelance helicopter pilot bureau in Australia, has recently gone through a security audit and a new requirement to encrypt all future backups. The backup administrator is wondering what the effect will be of enabling encryption for their existing file share backup jobs?

Got milk? LLC, a small regional dairy plant, has configured a single backup job, using the reverse incremental backup mode, containing four virtual machines with a strict RPO of 24 hours due to legal requirements. An additional backup to tape job has been configured to target their four drive tape library. An operations engineer discovers only a single tape drive appears to be used and that the backup to tape job is interrupted by the source backup job. What should the operations engineer do? (Choose Two)

Immersive Horse, a horse therapy company, has a single Microsoft Hyper-V host and has purchased a new second Microsoft Hyper-V host to replace the old host. Veeam Backup & Replication was just installed on a physical all-in-one server with a scale-out backup repository but no jobs have been created yet. A backup administrator has been recommended to create a VM Copy job to copy the virtual machines from the old host to the new host before creating any backup jobs. Both Hyper-V hosts have been added to Veeam Backup & Replication, but the backup administrator is struggling to configure a VM Copy job. What could the issue be?

Whittle.io, a technology startup, wants to archive the current state of a virtual machine hosting an early version of their Windows-based application. A backup administrator decides to use the VeeamZIP feature but it appears Microsoft VSS is not being performed inside the virtual machine. What is the cause?

Schläger Legenden, a table tennis sporting supply company, has recently deployed Veeam Backup & Replication with a standard edition license. An auditor is insisting on a spot-check verification that no corruption has occurred to a backup of a virtual machine containing a standalone database server. How should the backup administrator proceed?

Drink The Kool-Aid, a database optimization company, has recently deployed Veeam Backup & Replication with the database hosted on their local Microsoft SQL Server cluster. An auditor demands the database authentication method is changed from Windows authentication to Microsoft SQL Server authentication. How should the backup administrator implement this change?

Eureka!, an online virtual escape room experience, has recently deployed Veeam Backup & Replication. Corporate policy dictates that on-premises backups must be mirrored to public cloud storage. The backup administrator has configured a backup job utilizing the forever forward incremental backup mode with 14 restore points retention. The backup job is targeting a scale-out backup repository extended with a capacity tier on the AWS S3 public cloud that has been configured with an operational restore window of seven days. An auditor is unable to locate any backups mirrored to public cloud storage. How can this be resolved?

Dr. Kashperovetskyi, a regional therapist chain in the state of Illinois USA, has recently added a small remote office branch office (ROBO) location. The ROBO location contains a single VMware ESXi host containing a Linux-based Oracle database server and corporate policy demands backups are produced locally and include transaction logs. A new Veeam Guest Interaction Proxy has been deployed to the ROBO location. An operations engineer notices Veeam runtime process is not pushed from the Guest Interaction Proxy in the ROBO location but from the centralized Veeam Backup Server. What could be the cause?

Dr. Kashperovetskyi, a regional therapist chain in the state of Illinois USA, has configured Veeam Backup & Replication to send backups from their network-attached server file shares directly to their tape library by utilizing the network data management protocol (NDMP). An operations engineer is reporting that every 11th day it seems a full backup is unexpectedly performed. What could be causing this?

Williford Writes, a renowned writer of technical exam study guides, protects their virtual machines in a single backup job configured to run twice a day, utilizes the reverse incremental backup mode, and has retention of 150 restore points targeting a standalone backup repository with per-machine backup files disabled. Due to a legal situation the company has been asked to export a single virtual machine (VM) backup as of 50 days ago to a USB drive and provide it to their legal team. How should they proceed?

Got muh? We Herden, a market leader in cattle dog training, has a Linux first strategy and has tasked an operations engineer with documenting how to restore a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) only using the Linux backup repository. How should the engineer proceed?

You Party We Be Hardy Inc., a global rent-a-bartender company, has just discovered ransomware in an isolated server in their DMZ during an audit. The Windows-based antivirus software (used for ransomware discovery) has been installed on the all-in-one backup server but is not a predefined vendor by Veeam. A backup administrator has been tasked with locating the newest backup where the ransomware is not present and then restore the virtual machine to that point in time. How should the administrator proceed?

You Party We Be Hardy Inc., a global rent-a-bartender company, is in the process of restoring a server containing customer sensitive data and has decided to leverage the staged restore feature to ensure any customers who have exercised the right to be forgotten will not be restored back into production. After the restore to production is completed, an compliance officer notices customer data that should have been removed is still present. Manual runs of the same script, which resides on a shared network folder, works correctly against the restored production server. What could be the issue?

Dalrymple Dalrymple & Dalrymple, a fierce Scottish law firm, has an IPv6-first strategy and finished last week rolling out and enabling the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) kernel security module to all Linux-based servers. The operations team is receiving reports that an application is no longer able to perform certificate-based authentication and discover a certificate file has accidentally been deleted from one of the Linux servers. A backup administrator tries to restore the certificate directly back to the virtual machine but is unable to complete the restore. What could be the issue?

Better call Beason, an Atlanta GA USA based law firm that has suffered a data loss due to a typo in a script. About half of the contents of the 50 TB virtual drive (VMDK) are gone from a virtual machine. After watching how-to videos on Veeam.com, the backup administrator discovers the Instant VM Disk Recovery feature but is unsure what will happen to the existing disk, as it contains new data created since the last backup when it is replaced with the disk from the backup.

De La Cruz Enterprises, a UK-based welding company, has implemented replication to an offsite location. Bandwidth between the two sites is currently limited to 10 Mbit/s but be increased to 200 Mbit/s in one week. A few days ago, a backup administrator configured replication jobs for a mission-critical virtual machine (VM) as well as all business-critical VMs and confirmed the jobs have started. An operations engineer has been tasked with creating a failover plan to ensure smooth one-click failover for a mission-critical application but discovers some VMs cannot be added. What is the issue?

Wilkes Brick Museum, a private museum of more than 3.000 LEGO box sets in Atlanta GA USA, is noticing intermittent network issues on a standalone VMware vSphere ESXi host and requests a backup administrator to execute a failover of all virtual machines to a second standalone VMware vSphere ESXi host that a replication job has previously been set to target. Initially, everything appears to work, but soon the operations team is receiving reports of conflicts of machine names. What could be the issue?

Mendoza Street Wear, the epitome of cool on the west coast of the USA, wants to test their recovery plan in the event of pre-notice severe weather and executes a planned failover of their in-house developed application to their disaster recovery location in Raleigh, NC. Once the planned failover was confirmed successful, an operations engineer executed an undo failover. All replication jobs are configured to retain 7 restore points and the job has been successfully running daily for several weeks. The operation engineer discovers the restore points from six and seven days ago are missing. What is the explanation?

Mendoza Street Wear, the epitome of cool on the west coast of the USA, is in the middle of an outage due to severe weather and has performed a failover to their disaster recovery location in Raleigh, NC. The failover to the latest replica restore point from 1 hour ago is unsuccessful due to the production virtual machine being in an inconsistent state at the run of the last run of the hourly replication job. How can the backup administrator start the process of failover to a restore point from two hours ago?

A Veeam administrator has been tasked with completing a file-level restore of approximately 1 TB of data back to the original Linux-based virtual machine. Performance is key, the restore must complete as soon as possible. How should the administrator proceed?

A Veeam administrator must restore a single virtual disk as an additional drive (X:) back to the same virtual machine (VM). After having performed an Instant Disk Recovery, the administrator tries to locate the drive on the VM but it is not visible as drive X. What could be the issue?

Honest Joe’s Bikes, a small but well-known motorcycle chain in Ocoee FL, has a Veeam infrastructure consisting of a single all-in-one Veeam backup server in the off-site location. The administrator is wondering how they can improve restore performance and reduce total time required when restoring from their off-site backups?

Malware has been identified on an application server and the operations team has requested the virtual machine (VM) be restored to a point in time where the application server was not yet infected. The Veeam administrator is trying to perform a secure restore but the option does not appear in the restore wizard. What could be the issue?

An encrypted virtual machine (VM) in the vSphere environment was stored on a datastore that is lost. Only virtual backup proxies have been deployed. This is the first time an encrypted VM needs to be restored and the operations team wants it restored back in an encrypted state if possible. Which of the following statements are true? (Choose Two)

A virtual machine (VM) in the vSphere environment was stored on a datastore that is lost. The virtual machine had a vSphere storage profile attached. The Veeam administrator has been tasked with restoring the VM and powering it on as quickly as possible while ensuring it will keep the same vSphere storage profile as it had at the time of the backup. How should the administrator proceed?

Tengstedt Staples, famous horse breeders in Denmark, has performed a Virtual Disk Restore back to the original virtual machine and noticed the virtual machine was powered off during the restore. What could be the reason for this?

Kulaga Catering, the number 1 producer of pierogi and polish sausages, noticed that after a guest operating system upgrade a virtual machine (VM) is no longer able to boot. Backup proxies are configured to only use the Direct Storage Access transport mode (via 32 Gbit/s Fibre channel) to leverage backup from storage snapshots. All networks are 1 Gbit/s. The production storage system already overtaxes and the impact to the production storage must be minimized while maintaining the high storage performance of the VM. How should the VM be restored to a bootable state as soon as possible, while meeting the stated requirements?

Jorge Craft, a World-class pilsner brewing company based in the United Kingdom, is trying to perform a volume restore for the P: drive on a Microsoft Windows server that is protected using a Veeam Agent. What could be preventing such a restoration from being possible?

A backup administrator has been asked to determine the process for Veeam replication on the Microsoft Hyper-V platform. Which are steps taken by the source Veeam Data Mover Service during an incremental backup?

A backup administrator has been tasked with configuring new daily replication jobs on the Microsoft Hyper-V platform. from their production site to a secondary site. The secondary site is currently successfully used for storing backup copies. After configuring the job replication jobs, the backup administrator finds incremental runs of the replication jobs are unable to complete within the allocated backup window. How should the backup administrator proceed?

Haslund International Airlines LLC has recently deployed replication of mission-critical services with an RPO of 1 hour from their production site A in Kolding, Denmark to their Disaster Recovery site P in Copenhagen, Denmark. The incremental job runs are having issues finishing within the target RPO. The Veeam deployment is currently a single all-in-one physical server placed in production site A. How should the issue be remediated?

Escobart, an organic farmer in Colombia, has recently deployed a small Hyper-V failover cluster in a secondary location. Replication jobs have been configured and successfully completed, however, it appears re-IP rules are not being executed. How should the re-IP rules be correctly configured?

De La Cruz Enterprises, a UK-based welding company, is in the process of implementing replication to an offsite location for their Microsoft Hyper-V failover cluster. Corporate policy dictates all database servers must place native database dumps daily on controller 1 disk 0 (1:1) and that these drives must always be excluded from backups. A backup administrator has created a replication job for a mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server where disk 1:1, containing the database dump, is excluded and application-aware processing has been enabled. The database administrator is reporting that Microsoft VSS is still processing disk 1:1 unexpectedly. How should the backup administrator proceed?

A Veeam administrator just completed a new deployment of Veeam Backup & Replication including a backup server and a Scale-Out Backup Repository with five extents. No standalone repositories exist. All production hosts and disaster recovery (DR) hosts have been added to Veeam. Before creating the first replication job to replicate business-critical virtual machines to the DR site, will this be a successful setup?

A Veeam administrator has added a small 2-host cluster as the container under “Virtual Machines” in a new replication job. The cluster currently contains five virtual machines (VMs) named APP-01 through APP-05; however, one virtual machine (APP-01) must be the first to be processed. The application grows the required number of VMs every week. How should the administrator proceed?

A customer has an IT platform leveraging several hypervisor platforms such as Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2016 (SCVMM) for their Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 clusters, VMware Cloud on AWS as well as a free VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 on each remote site. The customer is interested in using Veeam ONE to monitor all mentioned systems, but would like to know which systems are supported?

A data protection technologist for Haslund LLC has been tasked with deploying Veeam ONE to monitor and perform automatic remediation on their Veeam Backup & Replication deployment. Corporate policy dictates all data protection systems must be disconnected from the internet, however, an internet proxy is available. How will signatures be updated in this deployment?

A data protection technologist for Haslund LLC has recently deployed Veeam ONE and has been tasked with forecasting the amount and type of alarms the company should expect for a specific infrastructure object. How could this be achieved?

Haslund LLC, a frozen foodstuff trading company, is running its IT infrastructure on Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and Microsoft Hyper-V. They have recently implemented Veeam ONE and are looking to automatically group virtual machines based on a comma-separated file exported from their change management database. How should they proceed?

The operations team at Haslund LLC has been tasked with investigating why some categories are being imported from a comma-separated file into their Veeam ONE deployment. The deployment is only a few weeks old and initially, categorization has been done manually until the team discovered it could be automated. How should the team proceed?

Which of the following statements regarding RPO and RTO are true? (Choose Four)

Which Backup Mode forces deleted VMs to be purged from Backup Repository, when (deleted) VM Retention policy is active? (Choose Two)

What effect will changing the compression settings for a backup job have?

What is the lowest interval you can schedule a backup job to run at?

Is it possible to use Changed Block Tracking (CBT) with Hyper-V 2012 R2 and older?

What effect will changing the storage optimizations settings for a backup job have?

To leverage a Microsoft Hyper-V Off-Host Backup Proxy, which of the following requirements must be met? (Choose Three)

Which statements about Parallel Processing are true? (Choose Three)

Which statements are true regarding Hyper-V 2012 R2 and older Changed Block Tracking? (Choose Two)

Which of these statements regarding Backup Jobs are true? (Choose Three)

Which compression level is used by VeeamZIP?

Which statement regarding Backup jobs and Backup Copy jobs are true? (Choose Two)

Which statements regarding Veeam Backup & Replication’s WAN Acceleration are true? (Choose Two)

Are credentials included in configuration backups?

Where is the Extract utility command line version for Linux located by default? (Choose Two)

Which statements regarding Veeam Backup & Replication tape support are true? (Choose Two)

Which statements regarding File Backup Jobs are true? (Choose Two)

Which statements regarding backup infrastructure are true? (Choose Two)

Which statements are true regarding vPower for VMware vSphere? (Choose Four)

Which of these statements regarding backup infrastructure are true?

Veeam Backup & Replication provides File-Level recovery for any file system?

Which are valid Restore Options in the Restore Wizard? (Choose Three)

Which statements regarding Guest OS File Recovery are true? (Choose Two)

Which of the following statements are true regarding Veeam Explorer for Exchange?

Which of the following statements regarding Veeam Explorer for Sharepoint are true? (Choose Three)

Which of these statements regarding Replica failover/failback is true?

Which of these statements are true about recovering from replicas? (Choose Three)

Which of the following statements regarding Hyper-V replication are true? (Choose Three)

Which of the following statements regarding Hyper-V replication are true? (Choose Two)

Which statements are true regarding Full VM restores? (Choose Two)

Which of these statements regarding Instant VM Recovery for VMware vSphere is true?

Which statement is true regarding the Extract utility?

Which of the following statements about Instant VM Recovery is true?

Which of the following statements about recovery is true?

Which of the following statements about recovery is true?

The operations team is testing exporting disks from various sources to the VHDX format to be used on the Microsoft Hyper-V cluster. Which source backups would be supported?

Which of the following statements about recovery is true?

Which of the following statements about recovery is true?

Which of the following options are supported replication targets? (Choose Three)

Which of the following statements about replication jobs are true? (Choose Two)

Which of the following statements about replication jobs are true? (Choose Two)