Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) Practice Exam

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• Which service interacts with the virtual infrastructure to collect and cache topology information, accelerating job performance?
• Which factors are used to estimate backup size required?
• What is SureBackup used for?
• What is a failover plan?
• Where does the default backup repository sit?
• What is Snapshot Hunter in Veeam?
• What components are involved in Instant VM Recovery with vPower?
• Which option is NOT listed as a supported backup repository type?
• Which LTO tape versions are supported?
• What is the sequence of actions performed on the VM in the isolated environment?
• What does File Copy do?
• What is the difference between a full recovery and a VM file recovery?
• How do you regulate backup load?
• Which repositories may require a gateway server?
• What is an application group?
• Which of the following is NOT a restore option for tapes?
• How much space is required on the target backup repository to perform a compact operation?
• What does Copy to performance tier do?
• Under what condition are restore points not copied for a Backup Job?
• By default, where is the Veeam Backup Proxy located?
• What happens during the 'Defragment and compact full backup file' operation?
• Can the order of VMs be set in a backup copy job?
• How do media pools differ from media sets in tape management?
• What is a gateway server?
• What is an incremental restore?
• Which statement about Windows VSS usage in Veeam quiescing is true?
• What are the Veeam install requirements?
• What is a guest interaction proxy?
• What is the primary function of Veeam Guest Catalog Service?
• Seed data used to speed initial replication can come from backups at which site?
• Can vPower NFS be used with Hyper-V?
• What is Fast Clone?
• Which statement about SureBackup testing is true?
• What are network traffic rules?
• What application level recovery does Veeam support?
• During automatic intelligent load balancing, what factors determine the chosen proxy?
• What is the main advantage of Instant File Level Recovery over full VM restores?
• Which PowerShell cmdlet resets CBT tracking data when it becomes corrupt?
• Which component stores data about the backup infrastructure, including jobs and sessions?
• What is a backup set?
• What is automatic intelligent load balancing?
• Which storage methods are supported for a Linux-based backup repository?
• What is Recovery Time Objective (RTO) used to measure?
• To avoid data loss when an extent is offline, which option should you enable?
• What is the term for a Backup Proxy installed on the Hyper-V host?
• Which statement best describes the impact of compacting on full backup file performance?
• What is a WAN Accelerator?
• Which method speeds up the initial VM or replica transfer?
• Which component restores VM guest OS files to the original location?
• What does the 3-2-1-0 rule specify?
• Storage integration allows backup from and creation of storage snapshots in VMware environments only.
• Which statement correctly describes how VMs are processed in a backup copy job and the effect of a WAN accelerator on processing?
• What are the three SureBackup VM tests?
• What does Recovery Point Objective (RPO) specify?
• What general compression/deduplication ratio is used in the estimation rule?
• During the compact operation, what happens to the auxiliary VBK file?
• Which deduplicating storage appliances are supported by Veeam?
• Which service mounts backups and replicas for file-level access and enables restoring VM guest OS files to the original location?
• What is a retention policy?
• Where is data encryption applied for backups?
• What best describes the 'pane of glass' in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager?
• What does data location tagging allow you to do?
• What is a media vault used for?
• What is VeeamZIP?
• In forward incremental backup, what happens?
• Which statement best describes Recovery Point Objective (RPO) in data protection terms?
• Resilient Change Tracking is equivalent to CBT on Hyper-V versions starting from which release?
• When are new deduplication settings applied?
• If any extent hosting backup files in the current backup chain is not available, what happens?
• In a VM copy operation, how are the VM disks copied by default?
• What resources can be added to an application group?
• What are the caveats of incremental restores?
• Which characteristic applies to WAN Accelerator besides traffic optimisation?
• What capability does Enterprise Plus edition provide regarding backups?
• What is a distributed deployment?
• What is a media pool in Veeam terminology?
• What happens to CBT data when you perform a product upgrade?
• Which component is the Windows service that coordinates all operations performed by Veeam Backup & Replication?
• Which of the following statements correctly lists the Fast Clone requirements?
• What is the Veeam Hyper-V Integration Service?
• Where is the Backup Proxy by default located for Hyper-V deployments?
• How does SureBackup publish a VM in the isolated environment?
• What is quiescing a VM?
• Does Veeam support Oracle servers?
• Which SQL configuration is required to be able to backup SQL transaction logs?
• What happens to backup files in the backup cache if the target location is unavailable?
• What does CBT provide in a backup job?
• What is a crash-consistent backup?
• What describes a replica failback?
• In backup size estimation, what change rate per day is commonly used in the general rule?
• What type of server can a backup proxy be installed on?
• What is Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager?
• What is important for staging SQL databases?
• What is GFS in backup terminology?
• What is the primary purpose of the Grandfather-Father-Son retention policy?
• Which component coordinates its operations with the Hyper-V Integration Services to quiesce VM operations and create a stable shadow copy of the volume during an online backup?
• What VMware infrastructure does Veeam support?
• Which feature automates the sequential startup of interdependent VMs during failover?
• What is the purpose of seeding data at the DR site?
• What is a VM copy job?
• Which is not allowed as an extent for a SOBR?
• Which component includes a set of Data Mover Services running alongside the backup server's dedicated services?
• In reverse incremental backup, what happens to the full backup and incrementals?
• When should you disable Veeam deduplication?
• After SureBackup tests complete, what happens?
• What is a capacity tier?
• What is Instant VM Recovery?
• Which file extension does a VeeamZIP backup file use?
• What is the extract utility?
• What is used to reduce the impact on production storage?
• Where is the guest OS index data stored?
• How do you manage Veeam agents?
• What is storage integration?
• Which statement about vPower NFS is NOT true?
• What is required for Fast Clone on SOBR?
• What is the preferred network?
• Which statement is NOT a described failback option?
• Which statement best describes a VM copy operation?
• Can you run scripts before and after backup jobs?
• What is RCT in this context?
• Can a job be mapped to a specific proxy?
• Which guest OS file system is required for excluding deleted blocks?
• Which quiescing options are used by Veeam depending on the VM type?
• Does Veeam support tapes?
• Does Veeam support vCloud Director?
• Which option lists all the possible backup methods?
• What must you define when you enable encryption for a job?
• What is required for CBT to work in a Microsoft Cluster environment?
• What is a media set in Veeam terminology?
• What is needed for Veeam's Plug-n for vSphere Web Client?
• How is traffic distributed with multiple backup proxies?
• Does a VM copy support incremental runs?
• What is a Virtual Lab used for?
• What is data location tagging?
• What is a media vault?
• Which component centralizes data from Veeam backup servers to enable backup and replication job management across multiple servers?
• Which statement about Instant File Level Recovery (IFLR) is true?
• Which condition will cause Veeam to process VMs in parallel rather than sequentially in a backup copy job?
• What is a Protection group?
• If you change compression or deduplication settings in an existing job, which backups are affected?
• For an application group, which statement is true?
• In a failover plan, which two elements are configured?
• How does U-AIR work?
• What is vPower NFS?
• Which component serves as the configuration and control center for the backup infrastructure?
• What is U-AIR?
• What does SureBackup use to publish a VM in the isolated environment?
• What can be recovered in Veeam Exchange explorer?
• What does ESXi require to enable vPower with NFS?
• What describes a deduplicating storage appliance in the context of Veeam backups?
• What is the Veeam agent backup cache?
• What does CBT stand for in this context?
• Why would you use multiple Backup Proxies?
• What are agent backups?
• What are the steps for failing over a replica?
• What Hyper-V infrastructure does Veeam support?
• What is the primary function of a gateway server in a Veeam backup infrastructure?
• U-AIR wizards are standalone components that can be installed and updated independent of the product.
• What is a requirement for running WAN Accelerator?
• When are new compression settings applied?
• What is a log shipping server?
• Which version is required for SureBackup?
• What format does Veeam use for writing to tape?
• What does the 'Perform backup files health check' feature do?
• What is a scale-out backup repository?
• What is a backup set?
• Which component is responsible for controlling job scheduling and resource allocation?
• What repository types can be used with Veeam?
• What happens on the first sync of a Backup Copy job?
• What does Quick Backup do?
• At the destination end of a vSphere replication job, what is recommended to optimize data transfer?
• What is a backup repository?
• Which of the following is a valid VMware transport mode?
• In forward incremental backups, which file extension denotes incremental restore points?
• Which statement correctly describes SOBR placement policies?
• Which server hosts the target Veeam Data Mover when using a gateway server?
• What is a planned failover?