VEEAM VMCE+_v13 Real Exam Dumps [August 2026 Update]

The single most important thing to understand about VMCE+_v13 before buying study materials is that it is not one exam. It is three exams – one for each of three required courses – and passing all three awards the VMCE+ credential. This is a structural change from the previous VMCE, which required one course and one exam. Candidates who approach VMCE+ expecting a single comprehensive test like the old VMCE and discover the three-exam structure only after registering for their first course have already misallocated their preparation resources. The three courses are: VDP: Configure, Manage, Recover (the VBR v13 course covering backup, replication, and recovery operations); VDP: Scale, Automate, Secure (Veeam Recovery Orchestrator – recovery plan automation and orchestration); and VDP: Monitor, Manage, Analyze (Veeam ONE – monitoring, alerting, and reporting). Each exam tests content specific to its course. A VBR administrator who has never worked with VRO or Veeam ONE will pass the first exam and struggle significantly with the second and third.

The Veeam VMCE+_v13 (Veeam Certified Engineer Plus v13) is Veeam’s advanced-level engineer certification, launched in Q2 2026. It replaces the retiring VMCE (which retired March 31, 2026). The VMCE+ requires completing all three VDP courses and passing each course’s associated exam. VMCE v12 certificate holders do not need to repeat the VBR course but must complete the VRO and VONE courses. VMCE+ is the prerequisite for the VMCSE (Veeam Certified Security Expert) certification.

Cert Empire’s VMCE+_v13 exam questions cover all three course areas: VBR v13 configuration and recovery, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator plan design, and Veeam ONE monitoring and reporting – giving candidates the preparation depth each exam requires.

Exam Snapshot

The Three-Exam Structure: What Each Covers

Exam 1: VDP Configure, Manage, Recover (VBR v13)

This is the foundational VBR exam – a significantly updated version of the old VMCE exam content, restructured for v13 and delivered as part of a multi-course series.

Data protection strategies: The exam opens with foundational concepts: backup versus replication versus snapshots, RPO and RTO requirements, and how different protection methods map to different recovery objectives.

Risk analysis and what is protected: v13 courses expand the risk analysis component – understanding threat models (ransomware, hardware failure, accidental deletion, site disaster) and mapping each to appropriate protection strategies.

Security and protection considerations (v13 additions): v13 significantly expanded the security content in the VBR course. New security topics: Veeam Security & Compliance Analyzer, Linux Hardened Repository configuration, immutability options for repositories, and securing Veeam service accounts with least-privilege principles.

Protecting VMware and Hyper-V workloads: Backup job creation, scheduling, retention policy configuration, VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking (RCT) for incremental backup efficiency. The exam tests how CBT/RCT works and what happens to backup efficiency when it is reset or disabled.

Veeam Agents: Backing up physical servers (Windows, Linux), cloud VMs, and workstations using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux. Protection groups for managing large numbers of agent deployments: Active Directory-based, CSV-based, and manual protection groups. The exam tests which protection group type is appropriate for different automated population scenarios.

Recovery operations: Full VM restore, Instant Recovery (mount backup as live VM), Veeam Explorer restores (granular recovery from Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, Active Directory, Teams), file-level recovery from Windows and Linux backups. The exam tests which recovery method is appropriate for which scenario and the specific steps in each recovery workflow.

Replication: Creating replication jobs, replication seeding (using existing backup data as seed for first replication pass), planned failover versus emergency failover, and how to perform failback after replication failover. The exam tests the difference between planned failover (graceful, maintains data integrity) and emergency failover (immediate, may have RPO gap).

Storage integration: Veeam integration with primary storage (VMware vSAN, NetApp, HPE, Pure Storage) for storage-native snapshots that feed Veeam backup jobs. The exam tests how storage snapshots improve backup performance and what the storage plugin architecture enables.

Backup infrastructure components: Backup server, backup proxy (VMware vSphere proxy, Hyper-V proxy, NAS backup proxy), backup repository, gateway server, WAN accelerator. The exam tests what each component does, where each should be deployed for optimal performance, and how to scale each for large environments.

Exam 2: VDP Scale, Automate, Secure (Veeam Recovery Orchestrator – VRO)

This exam tests Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, the orchestration layer for automating complex multi-step recovery scenarios.

What VRO provides beyond manual recovery: VRO creates orchestration plans (formerly called recovery plans or orchestration plans) that document and automate recovery procedures. Plans include: the sequence of recovery operations, pre-recovery steps (verify network isolation, perform backups of critical systems), the actual recovery steps (start VMs in dependency order, verify application startup), and post-recovery verification steps.

Plan components: The exam tests VRO plan architecture: plan scope (which VMs are protected by the plan), target location (recovery site), network mapping (production network → recovery network), datastore mapping (production storage → recovery storage), VM processing order and startup timing delays.

Recovery verification: VRO can verify recovery success by: checking VM power state, running PowerShell scripts inside the recovered VMs, testing network connectivity to the recovered VMs, and running application-specific health checks. The exam tests how verification steps are configured and what happens when a verification step fails (plan pauses or fails depending on configuration).

Automated recovery runbooks vs. manual plans: VRO can generate documented, printable recovery runbooks from the plan configuration. These runbooks serve both as audit evidence (proving that recovery procedures exist and are tested) and as step-by-step guides if automated recovery fails at some point and manual intervention is needed.

Testing orchestration plans: VRO supports regular plan testing in isolated virtual labs without affecting production systems. Tested plans generate test reports that can be used for DR compliance documentation. The exam tests the testing workflow and how test reports are used.

Dynamic groups and scale: VRO supports organizing VMs into groups that can be dynamically populated (VMs matching certain tags, folder location, or naming convention) so that new VMs are automatically included in orchestration plans. The exam tests dynamic versus static group membership.

Exam 3: VDP Monitor, Manage, Analyze (Veeam ONE)

This exam tests Veeam ONE, the monitoring, analytics, and reporting platform.

Veeam ONE components: Veeam ONE consists of: Veeam ONE Client (the management and monitoring interface), Veeam ONE Web Client (browser-based access for reports and dashboards), and Veeam ONE Business View (infrastructure visualization and business categorization).

Monitoring and alerting: Veeam ONE monitors Veeam infrastructure health (backup job status, proxy performance, repository capacity, network throughput) and VMware/Hyper-V infrastructure (VM power state, resource utilization, datastore capacity). Alarms fire when thresholds are crossed. The exam tests alarm configuration: alarm conditions, threshold values, alarm severity levels, and notification methods (email, SNMP trap, alarm suppression for maintenance windows).

Predefined alarms the exam focuses on:

• Backup Job Failed
• Backup Job Not Running
• Repository Free Space Below Threshold
• VM Snapshot Too Old
• Backup Proxy Resource Usage
• Protected VMs Coverage (VMs with no backup job assigned)

Reporting: Veeam ONE includes pre-built reports for backup status, storage capacity, VM performance, SLA compliance, and chargeback. The exam tests report scheduling, distribution via email, and report parameters.

RPO monitoring and SLA reports: The Backup Infrastructure Health and Protected Workloads SLA reports are key for demonstrating backup compliance. The exam tests what the Protected VMs report shows, how to identify VMs not covered by any backup job, and how to use the SLA report to identify jobs exceeding their RPO.

Business View: Veeam ONE Business View groups infrastructure objects (VMs, datastores, backup jobs) into business categories for reporting by department, application, or cost center. The exam tests Business View configuration and how categorization enables chargeback reporting.

Capacity planning: Veeam ONE’s capacity planning reports project when repository storage will fill based on historical growth. The exam tests how to generate capacity planning reports and what inputs affect the projection.

What Changed from Old VMCE to VMCE+

5 Study Tips for Veeam VMCE+_v13

• Tip 1: Prepare for three exams, not one. Allocate study time proportionally across all three VDP courses. Each course has its own exam with content specific to that course.
• Tip 2: If you hold VMCE v12, invest your saved VBR study time in VRO and Veeam ONE – the two areas where most existing VMCE holders have the least hands-on experience.
• Tip 3: Study VRO recovery plan components in detail: plan scope, network mapping, datastore mapping, VM processing order, verification steps, and testing workflow.
• Tip 4: Master Veeam ONE alarm configuration and the key predefined alarms. The VONE exam tests which alarm covers which infrastructure issue.
• Tip 5: Practice with Cert Empire’s VMCE+_v13 exam questions across all three course areas in separate study tracks, then integrate your knowledge with cross-domain scenario questions.

Best Study Resources

• Cert Empire VMCE+_v13 exam questions PDF and practice simulator (2026 three-course edition).
• Veeam University: VDP courses (veeamuniversity.com) – required for exam eligibility.
• Veeam ONE Administrator Guide (documentation).
• Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Administrator Guide (documentation).
• Veeam Community Resource Hub: VMCE+ study threads (community.veeam.com).

Career Opportunities After VMCE+_v13

• Senior Veeam Engineer
• Data Protection Engineer
• Backup and Recovery Architect
• Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (DR focus)
• Veeam Alliance Partner Technical Specialist

VMCE+ certified professionals are positioned as advanced-level Veeam practitioners across VMware, Hyper-V, physical, and cloud environments. Salaries range from USD 85,000 to USD 135,000 depending on experience and organization size.

Why Candidates Choose Cert Empire for VMCE+_v13 Preparation

✔ Three-course, three-exam question banks. Our VMCE+_v13 materials are organized by course, allowing targeted preparation for each of the three VDP exams.

✔ VRO orchestration plan architecture questions. We test recovery plan scope, network mapping, VM processing order, and verification step configuration at the implementation detail the real VRO exam requires.

✔ Veeam ONE alarm and reporting scenario questions. Our questions test alarm threshold configuration, predefined alarm interpretation, and SLA/RPO report generation.

✔ Practice under real exam conditions with the Cert Empire Exam Simulator. Our VMCE+_v13 simulator presents questions in course-specific tracks with timed sessions for each of the three exams.

✔ Instant access, 90-day free updates, and 24/7 support. As Veeam updates VMCE+_v13 content, your materials update automatically. Our support team is available around the clock.

✔ Backed by a full money-back guarantee. If our exam questions do not help you pass, we refund your purchase with no conditions.

Readiness Check

1. A Veeam administrator creates an Active Directory-based protection group targeting the security group “Accounting_Servers.” New accounting servers are automatically added to the Active Directory security group by IT when provisioned. Explain how Veeam’s AD-based protection group handles newly added members, what happens to the backup jobs associated with the protection group when new members are detected, and when a CSV-based protection group would be more appropriate than an AD-based one.
2. A VRO orchestration plan includes 15 application servers with dependencies: three database servers must start before any application servers, and two web front-ends must start last. The plan includes a verification step for each database server that runs a PowerShell script confirming database service availability. Configure the VM processing order description: what VRO mechanism controls startup sequencing, how startup delay is configured between groups, and what happens to the overall plan execution if the PowerShell verification for Database Server 2 returns a non-zero exit code.
3. A Veeam ONE alarm is configured to fire when repository free space falls below 15% of total capacity. The backup administrator reviews the alarm and notices it fires at midnight every weekday during the backup window, resolves by 6 AM, and has been generating 200 non-actioned alerts per month. How should the administrator address this alarm behavior while maintaining meaningful alerting for genuine capacity risk?
4. A VMware infrastructure supporting 300 VMs needs to be assessed for backup coverage gaps. Which Veeam ONE report identifies VMs without any associated backup job, and what inputs determine whether a VM appears as “unprotected” in that report?
5. A Veeam Engineer holds VMCE v12 and wants to achieve VMCE+_v13. List the specific courses they must complete, explain which course they are waived from completing and why, and identify which additional certification the VMCE+_v13 enables them to pursue as a next step.

FAQ’s

What is VMCE+_v13?

VMCE+ (Veeam Certified Engineer Plus) v13 is Veeam’s advanced engineer certification that replaces the retiring VMCE. It requires completing three VDP courses and passing an exam for each: VBR v13, VRO, and Veeam ONE.

How many exams are required for VMCE+?

Three – one for each required VDP course: Configure, Manage, Recover (VBR); Scale, Automate, Secure (VRO); and Monitor, Manage, Analyze (Veeam ONE).

If I hold VMCE v12, do I need to take all three courses?

No. VMCE v12 holders are waived from the VBR course (VDP: Configure, Manage, Recover) and only need to complete and pass the VRO and Veeam ONE courses and exams.

Is VMCE+ a prerequisite for VMCSE?

Yes. VMCSE (Veeam Certified Security Expert) requires an active VMCE+ certification as a prerequisite.

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