Veeam Certified Engineer VMCE v12 Practice Exam

The Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v12: Configure, Manage, and Recover provides comprehensive technical instruction tailored to IT professionals. The course focuses on equipping participants with the necessary skills to configure, manage, and provide support for a Veeam Backup & Replication v12 solution.

Through immersive hands-on labs, administrators and engineers gain practical experience, enabling them to proficiently safeguard and oversee data within an ever-evolving technical and business landscape, delivering tangible value to enterprises in today's digital era. 

Who should take this exam?

This is for individuals tasked with configuring, managing, or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v12 environment.

Prerequisites:

• Students should possess fundamental IT expertise encompassing networking, servers, storage, cloud services, virtualization, and operating systems.
• For optimal comprehension and engagement in this course, familiarity with the fundamental principles of Veeam Backup & Replication is recommended.

Learning Areas:

Upon finishing this, candidates will acquire the following competencies:

• Explain Veeam security principles
  
• Demonstrate the ability to configure both backup and backup copy jobs based on provided scenarios
• Explain network-attached storage (NAS) backup methodologies and their configuration
• Describe Veeam’s replication functionalities
• Identify suitable use cases for backups, replicas, and/or continuous data protection
• Configure backup infrastructure elements, encompassing proxy and repository servers
• Assess situations to determine the appropriate application of immutability settings
• Execute data recovery from backups based on given scenarios

Exam Details

• Exam Name: Veeam Certified Engineer VMCE v12
  
• Exam Languages: English
• Exam Questions: 70 Questions
• Time: 150 minutes

Course Outline

This covers the following content:

Topic 1: What can be protected?

• Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario.

Topic 2: Secure your backup server

• Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access

and data leaks.

Topic 3: Application consistency with secure authentication

• Achieve application-consistent backups of virtual machines while maintaining operating system secure authentication.

Topic 4: Protecting workloads

• Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs.

Topic 5: Deploying agents

• Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs.

Topic 6: Protecting NAS

• List required components and features available to protect NAS solutions.

Topic 7: Optimizing your backups

• Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency.

Topic 8: Immutability

• Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications.

Topic 9: Linux Hardened Repository

• Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux Hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability.

Topic 10: Object storge repositories

• Describe use cases, advantages and considerations to implement object storage solutions as Veeam backup repositories.

Topic 11: Backup infrastructure optimization

• List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance.

Topic 12: Replication

• Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies.

Topic 13: Backup copy jobs

• Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.

Topic 14: Long-term retention

• List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies.

Topic 15: Scale-out Backup Repository™

• Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories (SOBRs).

Topic 16: Move and copy backups with VeeaMover

• Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover.

Topic 17: Recovery verification

• Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas.

Topic 18: Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

• Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

Topic 19: Recovery scenario — Virtual machine failure

• Choose from different methods to recover a virtual machine from the backup.

Topic 20: Recovery scenario — Ransomware attack

• Securely restore a server after a ransomware incident with malware scanning of volumes directly from the backup and as part of the restore process.

Topic 21: Recovery scenario — Agent recovery

• Explore available options to restore data from agent backups.

Topic 22: Recovery scenario — Explorer recovery

• Use Veeam Explorers™ to recover application items directly from image-level backups.

Topic 23: Recovery scenario — Guest file recovery

• Restore guest operating system files directly from image-level backups and from diverse guest file systems.

Topic 24: Recovery scenario — Recovery from replica

• Describe virtual machine states available when recovering a virtual machine from its replica and mechanisms to avoid data loss and interdependent services recovery.

Topic 25: Recovery scenario — Instant NAS recovery

• List steps and considerations to instantly recover an entire file share from its backup.