Backup & Disaster Recovery Practice Exam

About Backup & Disaster Recovery
Backup and recovery describes the process of creating and storing copies of data that can be used to protect organizations against data loss. This is sometimes referred to as operational recovery. Recovery from a backup typically involves restoring the data to the original location, or to an alternate location where it can be used in place of the lost or damaged data.
A proper backup copy is stored in a separate system or medium, such as tape, from the primary data to protect against the possibility of data loss due to primary hardware or software failure.

Backup and disaster recovery benefits, are as
•    Business continuity solutions help maintain employee productivity and a business’s ability to generate revenue.
•    Backup and disaster recovery solutions help preserve a company’s reputation with customers and partners.
•    Business continuity solutions help prevents companies from losing business to the competition.
•    Backup and disaster recovery helps ensure compliance with industry regulations.

Why is Backup & Disaster Recovery important?
The purpose of the backup is to create a copy of data that can be recovered in the event of a primary data failure. Primary data failures can be the result of hardware or software failure, data corruption, or a human-caused event, such as a malicious attack (virus or malware), or accidental deletion of data. Backup copies allow data to be restored from an earlier point in time to help the business recover from an unplanned event.
Storing the copy of the data on separate medium is critical to protect against primary data loss or corruption. This additional medium can be as simple as an external drive or USB stick, or something more substantial, such as a disk storage system, cloud storage container, or tape drive. The alternate medium can be in the same location as the primary data or at a remote location. The possibility of weather-related events may justify having copies of data at remote locations.

Who should take the Backup & Disaster Recovery Exam?
•    IT security managers and officers
•    Risk managers
•    Project managers
•    Datacenter managers
•    BCP engineers
•    Entrepreneurs or Innovators
•    Anyone who wants to assess their backup and disaster recovery skills
•    Anyone interested in backup and disaster recovery

Knowledge and Skills required for the Backup & Disaster Recovery

Candidates gain quick success if they have skills of critical thinking and good communication skills.

Backup & Disaster Recovery Practice Exam Objectives

Backup & Disaster Recovery exam focuses on assessing your skills and knowledge in storage technologies, backup and disaster recovery.

Backup & Disaster Recovery Practice Exam Pre-requisite

There are no prerequisites for the Backup & Disaster Recovery exam.

Backup & Disaster Recovery Certification Course Outline

1. Storage Technology
1.1 Storage Topology – DAS, NAS & SAN
1.2 Storage Devices
1.3 NFS, CIFS, SMB
1.4 Fiber Channel
1.5 SCSI and iSCSI
1.6 RAID
1.7 Fault Tolerance
1.8 Filesystems
1.9 Storage Virtualization
1.10 LVM – Logical Volume Manager
1.11 SAN
1.12 Data Management
1.13 Backup and Disaster Recovery
1.14 Data Protection
1.15 High Availability


2. Backup
2.1 Backup Basics
2.2 Configuring Storage
2.3 Policies & Schedules
2.4 File System Backups
2.5 File System Restores
2.6 Disk Pools
2.7 Deduplication
2.8 Tape Storage
2.9 Virtual Machine Backups and Restores
2.10 NetBackup

3. Disaster Recovery
3.1 Disaster Recovery  Basics
3.2 Risk Assessment
3.3 Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
3.4 Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
3.5 Data Backup and Recovery Strategies
3.6 Virtualization-Based Disaster Recovery
3.7 System Recovery
3.8 Centralized and Decentralized System Recovery
3.9 Disaster Recovery Maintenance, and Training
3.10 BYOD


Exam Format and Information
Certification name – Backup & Disaster Recovery Certification
Exam duration – 60 minutes
Exam type - Multiple Choice Questions
Eligibility / pre-requisite - None
Exam language - English
Exam format - Online
Passing score - 25
Exam Fees  - INR 1199