Veeam Backup & Replication Questions and Answers

1. Which of the following backup types are valid for both Veeam Agent for Microsoft
Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux?
❖ File-level backup
❖ Volume-level backup
❖ Personal files backup
❖ Snapshot-level backup
❖ BOS-level backup
Ans : Volume-level backup, File-level backup

2. A critical server in a VMware environment has crashed and will not reboot. What is
the fastest way to bring this server back online so employees can continue to
work?
❖ Instant VM Recovery
❖ Instant VM Disk Recovery
❖ Entire VM restore
❖ Staged restore
Ans : Instant VM Recovery

3. An administrator is asked to change a backup copy job from periodic mode to

immediate mode. How can this be accomplished?
❖ Select the copy job, and under the settings tab, select transform.
❖ Create a new copy job and map it to the files from the original copy job.
❖ Select options from the properties menu for the job and switch the job mode from
periodic to immediate.
❖ Create a new copy job and delete the original job.
Ans: Create a new copy job and map it to the files from the original copy job.

4. A Veeam administrator is creating a protection group that needs to back up all

servers for the accounting department using Veeam Agent for Linux. How is this
accomplished?
❖ Install a custom shell script on each of the accounting servers that adds it to the
protection group.
❖ Create an Active Directory based protection group targeted at an Active Directory
security group.
❖ Create a protection group that reads a .csv file listing the accounting servers.
❖ Create a protection group and set it to automatically scan every three hours for
new servers.
Ans: Create an Active Directory based protection group targeted at an Active Directory
security group.

5. A company has multiple instances of Veeam Backup & Replication running. The
administrator is asking for a daily single pane of glass report of the backup status
for the last 24 hours. Which tool could be used to provide this information?
❖ Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
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❖ Veeam Backup & Replication console
❖ Veeam ONE
❖ Veeam Cloud Connect
Ans: Veeam ONE

6. Which of the following are valid export options for Microsoft SQL Server items
when using the Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL?
❖ .mdb file
❖ .ads file
❖ .bak file
❖ .mdf file
❖ .sql file
Ans: .bak file, .mdf file

7. A number of VMs are running as interdependent applications. They need to fail

over, one by one, as a group. What method should be used to do this?
❖ Failover plan
❖ Planned failover
❖ Replica failover
❖ Replication plan
Ans: Failover plan

8. Which feature can be used in Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory?
❖ Restore original password for account objects
❖ Recover from litigation and in-place hold items
❖ Restore databases from backups created with Veeam RMAN plug-in
❖ Export to .BAK file
Ans: Restore original password for account objects

9. A company's infrastructure consists of multiple Hyper-V servers that store VMs on

local storage. Which proxy should be used to back up these VMS?
❖ VM proxy
❖ On-host backup proxy
❖ Guest interaction proxy
❖ File proxy
Ans: On-host backup proxy

10. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows has been installed in standalone mode on a
Windows physical server. The backup job is configured to write to a Veeam
repository. Which of the following media types is available for recovery media
creation?
❖ Veeam Backup & Replication repository
❖ USB drive
❖ Tape
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❖ Object storage
Ans. USB drive

11. A director in a business needs a folder of traffic photos restored from a Linux
server. This machine sits on a VM backed up by Veeam Backup & Replication. The
director wants the files restored to their original location and does not want to
lose the original files. What functionality will be used to restore the folder using
the Veeam Guest OS restoration wizard?
❖ Restore the files using the "Keep" function. Original files will be untouched.
❖ Restore the files using the "Hold" function. The director can then determine the
status of the original and restored files.
❖ Restore the files using the "Versioning" function. Files will be prefixed with
numbers (1-, 2-, 3-, etc.).
❖ Restore the files using the "Overwrite" function. Original files will be renamed.
Ans. Restore the files using the "Keep" function. Original files will be untouched.

12. A backup administrator is asked to perform a file-level restore on a Windows VM

for the first time since Veeam Backup & Replication has been installed and left
unconfigured. Which of the following items would be used during this process?
❖ The gateway server configured for the repository
❖ The mount server configured for the repository
❖ The FLR helper appliance configured for the Restore wizard
❖ The guest interaction proxy configured for the backup job
Ans. The mount server configured for the repository

13. A physical Linux file server needs to be migrated to VMware ESXI. The server has
several volumes: /dev/sda (60GB), /dev/sdb (1TB) and /dev/sdc (4TB). What is the
quickest option to migrate the server?
❖ Perform Instant Disk Recovery for each volume.
❖ Perform Instant VM Recovery.
❖ Export all disks, create an empty VM and attach the disks.
❖ Create an empty VM and perform bare metal recovery Inside the VM.
Ans. Create an empty VM and perform bare metal recovery Inside the VM.

14. An administrator needs to configure a backup job that dynamically adds new
VMware hosted SQL servers. How can this be accomplished?
❖ Create a job based on vSphere tags.
❖ Create a dynamic backup job in Enterprise Manager.
❖ Enable application aware processing.
❖ Create a CSV file that is scanned before the backup job starts.
Ans. Enable application aware processing.

15. For general data protection regulation (GDPR) compliance, Veeam can add a
location tag to which component?
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❖ Guest interaction proxies
❖ vCenter servers
❖ Cloud gateways
❖ WAN accelerators
Ans. vCenter servers

16. A company has multiple instances of Veeam Backup & Replication running. The
administrator is asking for a daily single pane of glass report of the backup status
for the last 24 hours. Which tool could be used to provide this information?

❖ The performance tier will contain all restore points. The capacity tier will contain
zero restore points.
❖ Both the performance tier and capacity tier will contain all restore points.
❖ The performance tier will contain the most recent 14 to 20 days of restore points.
The capacity tier will contain all restore points.
❖ The performance tier will contain the most recent 15 to 22 days of restore points.
The capacity tier will contain the oldest 14 days of restore points.
Ans. The performance tier will contain the most recent 15 to 22 days of restore points.
The capacity tier will contain the oldest 14 days of restore points.

17. A file on a Windows VM hosted on vSphere is corrupted and must be restored.

VMware tools are installed and up to date on the VM. For some reason, the Veeam
mount server cannot connect to the VM through the network. Which of the
following restore methods provides the fastest restore (RTO)?
❖ Run Veeam file restore wizard and let it restore through VIX.
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❖ Run Veeam file restore wizard and use the "copy to" to download the file locally in
a shared folder.
❖ It is impossible to restore the file on the VM if the mount server cannot reach it
through the network.
❖ Start an Instant VM Recovery session and log on into the restored image to
copy/paste the file to restore.
Ans. Run Veeam file restore wizard and let it restore through VIX.

18. A physical Windows server protected by a centrally managed Veeam agent is

physically damaged. A VMware vSphere infrastructure is available, and the
physical server is eligible for virtualization. Which recovery step provides the
lowest possible RTO?
❖ Use Export Disk Content as Virtual Disk to create a new VM.
❖ Use Instant Disk Recovery to VMware vSphere VM.
❖ Use Bare Metal Restore to vSphere VMs.
❖ Use Instant VM Recovery to VMware vSphere VM.
Ans. Use Instant VM Recovery to VMware vSphere VM

19. Hourly backup jobs are configured to local repositories. Daily backups must be
sent from Site B to the repository on Site A. The connection between the two sites
does not allow a direct backup to complete within the backup window. Impact on
the source VMs at Site B should be minimized. Which type of job and Veeam
components should be used to provide the necessary protection?
❖ A backup job and components 5-2
❖ A backup copy job and components 6-4-3-2
❖ A backup job and components 5-4-3-2
❖ A backup copy job and components 6-5-4-3-1-2

Ans. A backup copy job and components 6-5-4-3-1-2

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20. In the war against ransomware, a company decided to implement tape backup.
The infrastructure contains VMware VMs and physical Windows servers. What is
the most efficient approach to getting all servers onto tape?
❖ Create backup to tape jobs and write directly to tape.
❖ Create backup jobs, then create file to tape jobs.
❖ Create backup jobs, then create backup to tape jobs.
❖ Create file to tape jobs and write directly to tape
Ans. Create backup jobs, then create backup to tape jobs.

21. A backup of a Windows VM running on a VMware Cluster has been created. In

which scenario can the Quick Rollback option be used during a Full VM Restore of
the VM?
❖ Issues caused by VM guest user error
❖ Migration of VM to VMware host in a different data center
❖ Issues caused by storage data corruption
❖ Migration of VM to Hyper-V host in the same data center
Ans. Issues caused by VM guest user error

22. What is the primary benefit of configuring replica seeding?

❖ Reduced WAN traffic
❖ Compressed WAN traffic
❖ Deduplicated WAN traffic
❖ Encrypted WAN traffic
Ans. Reduced WAN traffic

23. What should be implemented when backing up NAS file shares to ensure there is
more than one copy of the data?
❖ Archive repository
❖ Cache repository
❖ Backup repository
❖ Secondary copy
Ans. Secondary copy

24. A company needs to ensure that, during a disaster, a group of VMs starts in a
certain order with time delays between starting each VM. How can this be
accomplished?
❖ Perform a planned failover.
❖ Create a failover template file for the group of VMS.
❖ Create a failover plan.
❖ Create a replica chain in the Veeam Backup & Replication console.
Ans. Create a failover plan.

25. Veeam ONE has been installed and configured. It is necessary to monitor the three
Veeam Backup & Replication servers in order to see how much backup storage is
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being used on the performance and capacity tiers of the backup repository server.
How can this be achieved?
❖ Install the Veeam ONE Connector on each Veeam Backup & Replication server and
the backup repository server. Approve the connection via the Data Protection
View.
❖ Add the virtual infrastructure and look up the backup repository server to see the
guest disk space.
❖ Add each Veeam Backup & Replication server and monitor storage usage through
the Data Protection View.
❖ Add the three Veeam Backup & Replication servers and the backup repository
server under Infrastructure View.
Ans. Add the virtual infrastructure and look up the backup repository server to see the
guest disk space.

26. Due to an unexpected power outage, Site A is completely down. The disaster
recovery strategy was implemented (see diagram). What is the correct way to start
replicated VMS on Site B?

❖ Perform "Failover"
❖ Power on VMs manually from ESXi host
❖ Execute "Planned failover".
❖ Execute "Permanent failover" from ESXi host.
Ans. Perform "Failover"

27. What is the default suffix added to a replica's VM name?

❖ _replica
❖ _seed
❖ _secondary
❖ _map
Ans. _replica

28. What data sources can be connected to Veeam ONE? (Choose 2)

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❖ Microsoft Azure VMs
❖ Amazon Web Services EC2 instances
❖ Nutanix Acropolis server
❖ VMware vCloud Director server
❖ Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager server
Ans. VMware vCloud Director server, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
server

29. An administrator has decided to set up a VM backup job covering their Microsoft
SQL servers. What feature must be enabled to ensure quiescence of the SQL
databases during the backup?
❖ Enable Microsoft Windows OS processing.
❖ Enable Microsoft SQL server agent on the VMS.
❖ Enable application-aware processing.
❖ Enable Microsoft SQL server plug-in.
Ans. Enable application-aware processing.

30. 35 VMs are running on a Hyper-V platform at a remote office (ROBO). The
administrator has been tasked with setting up replication to the main office (HQ)
so it can act as the disaster recovery site. The available bandwidth is 40 Mbps.
RPO is set to eight hours and the data generated for the interval is 300 GB. Which
of the following will achieve the RPO?
❖ Configure the replication jobs set to Direct Mode. Schedule every eight hours.
❖ Use replication jobs with copy mode set to "interval copy". Schedule to run after
the backup job.
❖ Configure the replication jobs with WAN acceleration enabled. Set the schedule to
run every eight hours.
❖ Use replication jobs with copy mode set to "periodic copy" and set the interval to
every eight hours,
Ans. Configure the replication jobs with WAN acceleration enabled. Set the schedule to
run every eight hours.

31. A company needs to recover a physical machine running Windows very quickly.
The company decides to use Instant VM Recovery from their last backup. What
platforms can this backup be instantly restored to? (Choose 3)
❖ VMware
❖ GCP
❖ AHV
❖ Azure
❖ AWS
❖ Hyper-V
Ans. VMware,AHV, Hyper-V
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32. A daily backup job for seven Hyper-V VMs has been configured at the main site,
keeping 14 days' worth of backup files. They want to get a copy of the VM backups
to a repository at the disaster recovery site. They want to keep six months' worth
of backup files at the disaster recovery site. They also need to be able to restore
the VMs to any given day within two months and any given week within the six
months. How should a backup copy job be configured to meet these
requirements?
❖ Use immediate copy (mirroring) mode, keeping 180 days of retention.
❖ Use periodic copy (pruning) mode, keeping 62 days of retention and six monthly
GFS restore points.
❖ Use periodic copy (pruning) mode, keeping 180 days of retention.
❖ Use immediate copy (mirroring) mode, keeping 62 days of retention and 26 weekly
GFS restore points.
Ans. Use immediate copy (mirroring) mode, keeping 62 days of retention and 26 weekly
GFS restore points.

33. A Veeam administrator has been tasked to create a backup that will automatically
make a copy of data on a different media type, while also being off site, without
creating additional backup or backup copy jobs. The administrator has
determined that a Scale-out Backup Repository can be used as part of the
solution. How can this be accomplished?
❖ Add an archive tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enable "GFS Tiering".
❖ Add a capacity tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enable the "Move"
option.
❖ Add a capacity tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enable the "Copy"
option.
❖ Add an archive tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enable the "Copy"
option.
Ans. Add a capacity tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enable the "Copy"
option.

34. Veeam ONE ______ can detect when a potential ransomware attack is happening
and be configured to take mitigating actions.
❖ Alert Management
❖ Reporting
❖ Data Protection View
❖ Alarm Management
Ans. Alarm Management

35. For Veeam agent backup jobs, what feature is only available with Veeam Agent for
Microsoft Windows?
❖ Backup from storage snapshots
❖ Application-aware processing of PostgreSQL
❖ File-level backup
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❖ Volume backup
Ans. Backup from storage snapshots

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