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A Windows Server using the ReFS filesystem has been used as a standalone Veeam repository for several years and is due for replacement. A new Windows server using the ReFS filesystem has been created to replace the old server, with twice the capacity. Backup files need to be transferred to the new server with no disruptions to the existing backup chains.

The Veeam engineer has begun to move backup files to the new repository but is now getting alerts that it is running out of space.

How could the engineer have avoided this issue?

Use a Backup Copy Job

Use the "Copy backup..." function

Use the "Move backup..." function

Use Robocopy with the /compress switch

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What happens if there are more than five unsuccessful attempts to enter the confirmation code during MFA login?

The user is locked out for 1 minute

The user is locked out for 1 hour

The user is locked out for 24 hours

The user is permanently locked out

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An engineer is configuring Veeam Backup and Replication for an organization to protect a VMware environment using vSAN. The backup proxy must be isolated from the VMkernel.

Which transport mode should the engineer use?

Direct NFS access

Virtual appliance

Network mode

Direct SAN access

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The compliance team is requesting a Veeam engineer complete the following tasks on the backup environment:

1. All image-level backups are to be tested and validated
2. Recovery verification with a well-known malware scan
3. Send an email to the Veeam engineer with test results

What is the recovery verification function to meet this requirement?

SureReplica

SureBackup

Quick Migration

On-Demand Sandbox

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Why is it recommended to install Veeam ONE before Veeam Backup & Replication?

Veeam ONE is a prerequisite for Veeam Backup & Replication installation

Veeam ONE stores the license file necessary for Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam ONE can potentially identify infrastructure issues prior to performing a backup

Veeam ONE can verify that the server meets the minimum requirements to install Veeam Backup & Replication

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The administrator of a VMware environment backed up by Veeam Backup & Replication has a critical server with corruption on one of its three data drives. What is the fastest way to bring this drive back online with the least disruption to business?

Staged restore

Entire VM restore

Instant VM Recovery

Instant Disk Recovery

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Veeam Backup and Replication is currently configured with backup jobs that are targeting a local Backup Repository on a Windows Server.
The backups are now configured to run periodically every 6 hours. The engineer wants to create a secondary copy of the backups. However, due to bandwidth and compute restrictions, the copies must be created and transferred only once a day.
Which option should the engineer choose to achieve this goal?

Add the repository to a Scale-Out Backup repository, extend it with a Public Cloud Object Storage as Capacity tier in copy mode

Find a Service Provider with Offsite Backup services, create a Backup Copy job with Immediate Copy (Mirroring) mode to the Service Provider repository

Configure a Hardened Linux Repository, create a Backup Copy job with Periodic Copy (Pruning) mode to this repository and schedule it to run once a day

Add the repository to a Scale-Out Backup repository, extend it with a Public Cloud Object Storage as Capacity tier in copy and move mode, and set the operational restore window to 7 days

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Veeam Backup & Replication is currently configured to keep backups for 14 days on a NAS repository. An engineer needs to enable GFS with 12 monthly and 5 yearly full backups to extend the retention for archival purposes but does not have enough space on the repository to store them.
After adding the repository to Scale-Out-Backup Repository (SOBR) as Performance Tier, which option should the engineer choose to solve this issue?

Add an Object Storage as Archive tier and set the policy to move all GFS backups

Add an Object Storage as Capacity tier and set the policy to move backups older than 14 days

Add another NAS repository as Capacity tier and set the policy to move backups older than 14 days

Add an Object Storage as Capacity tier and set the policy to copy backups to object storage as soon as they are created

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Veeam ONE has been installed and configured. The infrastructure contains five Veeam Backup & Replication servers. The administrator needs to check the remaining capacity on each of the backup repository servers. Where can they see this information?

Under Business View, look up the backup repository servers to see the remaining capacity

Under Infrastructure View, look up the backup repository servers to see the guest disk space

Under Data Protection View, look up the backup repository servers to see the remaining capacity

Under Infrastructure View, look up the Veeam Backup & Replication servers to see the guest disk space

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An administrator needs to create a strategy in advance of a disaster to ensure that applications can be started in a specific order. How can this be accomplished?

Failover plan

Application group

Veeam ONE migration script

Attach XML file to existing job with the VM start order

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A company has an application on a VMware VM that stores customer photos. Customers may request their photos be removed at any time. The server needs to be restored from last week's backup. What Veeam restore process allows for custom scripting to be run to automatically remove any required photos before the server is returned to production?

Secure Restore

Instant VM Recovery

Instant Disk Recovery

Staged Restore

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Which Veeam replication failover function ensures that changes made during a failover are copied to the original production VM?

Undo failover

Fallback

Permanent failover

Undo failback

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A mid-sized company uses Veeam Backup and Replication to safeguard their business-critical data from ransomware attacks. The company needs to validate backups and increase security, while improving DevOps efficiency.
How can a SureBackup Job be utilized to address the company's specific needs?

Improves recovery speed reducing RTO

Helps improve the data deduplication and compression ratios

Creates a secure, isolated environment to test new applications

Validates backup data and ensures backups are ransomware-free

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What is the primary benefit of configuring replica seeding?

Encrypted WAN traffic

Compressed WAN traffic

Reduced WAN traffic

Deduplicated WAN traffic

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An engineer needs to make sure that a backup job includes both the virtual machine's disk files and the Microsoft SQL database transaction logs.
Which backup feature in Veeam Backup and Replication should be used?

App consistent mode

Crash consistent mode

Guest file system indexing

Application-aware processing

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A customer has a physical windows server running Microsoft SQL 2020.
Which component should be used to protect the whole server?

Cache Repository

Veeam Agent

Veeam Backup Proxy

Veeam Plug-in for Enterprise Application

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There is a company-wide mandate to migrate operations off corporate datacenters and over to AWS, Azure, and GCE. The Veeam engineer has backups of VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix VMs stored in on-premises repositories. The performance of a test restore was not satisfactory.
Which solution should the engineer deploy?

Helper appliance in the cloud

Upgraded bandwidth to the Internet

Caching servers on premises and in the cloud

Veeam Wan Accelerators on premises and in the cloud

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Company security policy states that backups must be copied to a remote location within 8 hours.
What step can a backup administrator take to receive an alert automatically if the backup copy job violates the company's policy?

Enable the appropriate RPO monitor

Set up post-thaw scripts to send an email

Set a backup copy window alert on the repository

Set a Data Protection alert in Enterprise Manager

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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 VM Recovery

Perform Instant Disk Recovery for each volume

Export all disks, create an empty VM and attach the disks

Create an empty VM and perform bare metal recovery inside the VM

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For which workload can Veeam Data Platform achieve image-level backups?

IOS

HP-UX

Solaris

AS/400

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In the war against ransomware, a company decided to implement tape backup. The infrastructure contains Hyper-V VMs. What is the correct approach to getting all servers onto tape?

Create media sets, then create file to tape jobs

Create media pools, then create file to tape jobs

Create media sets, then create backup to tape jobs

Create media pools, then create backup to tape jobs

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A company’s infrastructure includes a Fibre Channel SAN where the VMware VMs are located. The administrator wants to create a backup that minimizes the impact on the production environment. What proxy transport mode should be used?

Network

Virtual appliance

Guest interaction

Direct storage access

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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 periodic copy (pruning) mode, keeping 180 days of retention

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 immediate copy (mirroring) mode, keeping 62 days of retention and 26 weekly GFS restore points

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What type of backup can Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications provide?

A transactionally consistent backup of active directory

A complete backup of the database and the host server

A transactionally consistent backup of the database and its database logs

A backup of changes to the database after the agent backs up the whole server

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Which API is available to automate Veeam Backup and Replication operations?

REST API through Veeam One server

REST API through Veeam Backup and Replication Server

SQL queries on the Veeam Backup and Replication database

Powershell cmdlets through Veeam Enterprise Manager Server

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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

Enable application aware processing

Create a dynamic backup job in Enterprise Manager

Create a CSV file that is scanned before the backup job starts

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An engineer needs to test the impact of operating system updates on app functionality in an isolated non-production environment.
What Veeam Backup and Replication feature can be used to facilitate this?

Virtual Labs

Replication

Instant Recovery

Direct Storage Snapshots

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A physical Linux 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 Instant Disk Recovery to VMware vSphere

Use Bare Metal Restore to VMware vSphere VM

Use Export Disk Content as Virtual Disk to create a new VM

Use Instant VM Recovery to VMware vSphere

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A customer's NAS has multiple hardware failures, and the NAS is no longer accessible. All of the users are impacted as they need to access the NAS for day-to-day work.
Which restore method could minimize the service impact to the users?

Instant file share recovery

Rollback to a point in time

Restore of the entire file share

Restore of files and folders

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The engineer configured Veeam Backup & Replications 3 years ago with an all-in-one physical server with one job backing up all VMs. The environment grew considerably and RPOs are no longer met.
The engineer checks the backup job and sees:
Load: Source 0% > Proxy 68% > Network 0% > Target 0%.
What should be done to decrease the backup processing time?

Split the VMs in several jobs with the same schedule to process the VMs in parallel

Edit the Backup Job settings and enable parallel processing from Advanced options

From Backup Infrastructure add an extra Windows/Linux machine as Backup Proxy

Install another Veeam Backup & Replication server and move half of the VMs to be processed in a separate job

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A corporation needs to give their MS SQL DBAs a way to restore their MS SQL databases.
Which action would allow the corporation to grant this access without giving access to other operations?

Deny access to restore VMs in Enterprise Manager

Give the DBA group Restore Operator access to the backup server

Delegate application item recoveries to the DBA Group

Give the DBA group Restore Operator access to MS SQL DBs in Enterprise Manager

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The engineer needs to back up sensitive data located on VMware vSphere encrypted VMs. The company policy prioritizes data security over anything else.
In the backup infrastructure, the engineer has configured:
One physical proxy configured on the DirectSAN Access transport mode, for fast data transfer speed and less load on the production network

Two physical proxies in NBDSSL -
Encryption has been enabled on the backup job
Which action will allow the VM data to remain encrypted during the entire backup process?

Configure Global Network Traffic Rules to encrypt the backup traffic

Configure the job to use the proxies with the NBDSSL transport mode

Upload a custom script that re-encrypts the VM data after the backup job

Configure the job to use the proxy with the DirectSAN Access transport mode

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An engineer has a NAS file share to protect.
What preliminary step must be taken to create a NAS backup job?

Define file exclusions in the job

Add a File Share under Inventory and choose NAS Filer

Add a Managed Server with the IP address of the NAS Filer

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An engineer needs to back up their VMware VMs running on a Nimble Array. The engineer has checked “Enable backup from storage snapshots” when creating the job. When the backup runs, snapshots are not triggered on the Nimble Array.
Which additional step must be performed?

VMware Tools need to be updated

The backup repository is not configured to accept snapshots

The Nimble Array needs to be added to Storage Infrastructure

The Nimble Array needs to be rebooted to allow for Backup from Storage Snapshots

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The organization has a strategy to copy its VM and Agent backups to the alternate site. The backup administrator has requested to implement a similar backup copy strategy for unstructured data backups with 10 additional days of retention.
Which configuration is correct?

File to tape job

File share copy job

Periodic backup copy

File share backup job

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A company has an RPO set at 4 hours and values data protection and disaster recovery. A disaster occurs on June 12, 2023 at 10:00 AM.
Which restore point gives the company the best RPO?

June 12, 2023, 5:00 AM

June 12, 2023, 8:00 AM

June 12, 2023, 9:30 AM

June 12, 2023, 1:00 PM

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The director of a business needs a folder of files restored from the corporate shared drive. This drive sits on a Windows VM backed up by Veeam Backup & Replication. The director does not want the folder restored to its original location. Where can this folder be restored to using the Veeam Guest OS Restore wizard?

A valid UNC path

An Azure blob

An AWS S3 bucket

An e-mail as an attachment

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A request to protect some new domain controllers has been submitted in the ticketing system The engineer creates a backup job with the following steps:
1. Right-clicks on the Jobs navigation item on the left
2. Selects VMware vSphere from the menu
3. Enters a name for the job.
4. Selects workloads to protect.
5 Defines a job schedule.
6. Clicks the Finish button.
When testing restores, the engineer finds that the backups are crash-consistent.
Which set of steps should the engineer use to avoid crash-consistent backups for the domain controllers?

Launch the New Backup Job Wizard Enter a name for the job Specify a backup repository. Specify Guest Processing settings. Define a job schedule Click the Finish button

Launch the New Backup Job Wizard. Enter a name for the job. Select workloads to protect. Choose a destination. Enable the Application-Aware checkbox and configure settings. Define a job schedule. Click the Finish button

Launch the New Backup Job Wizard. Enter a name and a description. Select a resource pool to protect. Specify a backup repository with copy-mode enabled. Define a job schedule. Click the Finish button

Launch the New Backup Job Wizard Enter a name or description for the job. Select the vSphere environment to protect. Choose the Default Backup Repository Check the box labelled “Run the job when I click Finish". Specify Guest Processing settings. Define a job schedule

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Which feature can be used in Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange?

Export to BAK file

Restore original password for account objects

Recover from litigation and in-place hold items

Restore databases from backups created with Veeam RMAN plug-in

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An administrator is asked to change a backup copy job from periodic mode to immediate mode. How can this be accomplished?

Enable immediate mode on the repository

Create a new copy job and delete the original job

Modify the job settings on the proxy performing the copy job

Edit the original job and select immediate copy mode from the job settings

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A backup administrator must enable guest file system indexing for a backup job of a Microsoft Windows file server VM. All required credentials are added to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. VMware Tools (VIX) cannot be used due to security regulations. What should be done to make it possible in the following environment?

Connect the ESXi host to the VM network

Use the proxy server as a guest interaction proxy

Use the Veeam Backup & Replication server as a guest interaction proxy

Install a file system indexing plugin on the Microsoft Windows file server

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In Veeam Enterprise Manager, what granular restoration permission can be set for the Restore Operator role?

File items

OneDrive items

SharePoint items

Active Directory items

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An engineer needs to back up the data on a NAS file share, located on the company’s main production site.
Which option would increase the performance of the job?

Assign a high priority to this job

Assign Veeam WAN accelerators to the job

Deploy the backup proxy and the cache repository on a dedicated backup network

Deploy the backup proxy and the cache repository on the same network as the NAS

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What describes an RPO?

To confirm the data loss tolerance of a Business Unit or Organization

To confirm at what point a backup should be migrated to Object Storage

To clarify how many restore points need to be recovered at the same time

To determine the maximum length of time a workload or application can be down

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An environment is using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and has Microsoft Exchange 2016 with regular database availability groups (DAGs) configured. What option is required to properly back up the databases?

Failover Cluster

Standalone server

Exchange Processing

Advanced Exchange Backup

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A photography company provides online purchase of photographs. The core of the business operates from an Oracle database that stores all company images. New photos are continuously added to the database at widely variable intervals. Company policy only requires the database to be protected.
Which Veeam Feature will provide complete backup and recovery for this database?

Use the Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN Back up the entire host server including the database and logs daily

Use the Veeam Agent. Back up the entire server including the database with Consistent Server Backup feature

Use the Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN Back up the database daily Back up the archived redo logs at 15-minute intervals

Use the Veeam Explorer to Identify and backup the database and logs daily along with the log backup set to 15-minute interval

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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

Issues caused by storage data corruption

Migration of VM to Hyper-V host in the same data center

Migration of VM to VMware host in a different data center

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An engineer has used a Linux Hardened Repository as the backup repository. The immutability period is set to 60 days.
The backup settings are:

Retention Policy: 14 days -

GFS Weekly full backup: 1 week -
GFS Monthly full backup: 6 months
If a full backup is created on 27th May 2023 with a monthly GFS flag, when will this restore point be automatically deleted?

27th June 2023

28th July 2023

5th August 2023

28th November 2023

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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 jobs, then create file to tape jobs

Create file to tape jobs and write directly to tape

Create backup jobs, then create backup to tape jobs

Create backup to tape jobs and write directly to tape

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On Monday, a backup administrator found out that some backup jobs were missing from a configuration. They want to roll back the configuration database to Friday's state. Which configuration restore mode should be used?

Migrate

Restore

Instant SQL Recovery

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL

51 / 60

For general data protection regulation (GDPR) compliance, Veeam can add a location tag to which component?

Cloud gateways

WAN accelerators

Guest interaction proxies

vCenter servers

52 / 60

An engineer has 3 Veeam Backup servers in 3 different data centers. The engineer needs a way to have centralized licensing and role-based access control.
How should the engineer accomplish this with the least effort?

Use the Veeam Web Portal

Deploy the Enterprise Manager

Create a web portal using REST API

Install the Remote console on a different client

53 / 60

What can Veeam service providers deploy in Service Provider Console 7.0?

Veeam Backup & Replication

Enterprise plugins

Veeam One

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365

54 / 60

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 a capacity tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enable the "Move" option

Add an archive tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enable "GFS Tiering"

Add an archive tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enable the "Copy" option

Add a capacity tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enable the "Copy" option

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A power outage on Site A is expected during the night. The disaster recovery strategy has been implemented (see diagram). What is the correct way to start replicated VMs on Site B to minimize data loss?

Execute "Permanent failover" from vCenter

Power on VMs manually through vCenter

Execute "Planned failover"

Execute "Failover plan"

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It is required that some replicated VMs start on a time delay during a failover. How can this be accomplished?

Use a pre-freeze/post-thaw script

Create a failover plan

Modify the failover template file

Adjust boot delay in application group

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A Veeam engineer creates a Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR) that uses AWS S3 as the Performance Tier. The backup job is configured to “Keep monthly full backups for: 12 months”. The engineer wants the backups to move to Glacier after 90 days.
What should the engineer do first to achieve this goal?

Create a Vault in S3 Glacier

Add AWS S3 as a Capacity Tier before they can use Glacier

Add an Archive Tier with the appropriate Bucket from S3

Reconfigure the SOBR to use block storage as the Performance Tier

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An engineer needs to be able to perform all functions without needing to access the backup server locally or over remote desktop.
What should the engineer do?

Install the required Veeam Explorers locally

Install the Veeam console on the engineer's desktop

Use SSH to connect to the Veeam Backup & Replication server

Use Enterprise Manager to connect to the Veeam Backup & Replication server

59 / 60

Which two environments can Veeam Agents back up? (Choose two.)

iOS, Windows Server

Ubuntu, IBM iSeries

FreeBSD, iOS

IBM iSeries, FreeBSD

Windows Server, Ubuntu

60 / 60

A Scale-out Backup Repository with one local extent has been configured as follows.

A daily VMware backup job retention is 31 days, keeping weekly GFS full backups for 14 weeks.
It is Mar, 20. A file from a backup that occurred the week of Jan, 1 must be recovered. Where is the data?

The archive tier

The capacity tier

The performance tier

The data is no longer in the Scale-out Backup Repository

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