Exam VMCE v12 topic 1 question 1 discussion

Actual exam question from Veeam's VMCE v12

Question #: 1
Topic #: 1

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?

A. The performance tier
B. The data is no longer in the Scale-out Backup Repository
C. The capacity tier
D. The archive tier

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

by ganaarya at Jan. 23, 2024, 6:36 a.m.

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ahenriquez02

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Selected Answer: C

The correct answer is: C. The Capacity Tier. Explanation: Daily retention is 31 days, which means that the daily backups from the week of January 1 have already been deleted. However, weekly GFS backups are retained for 14 weeks. Since it's March (March 20), the weekly backup from the week of January 1 should still be available. In a Scale-out Backup Repository setup, GFS backups are typically copied or moved to the Capacity Tier, which is typically cloud storage (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage). Therefore, the required archive should be in the Capacity Tier.

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JustinWPG

10 months ago

Selected Answer: C

The listed "correct answer" says D. There is no archive tier however. Odd. It is C, as the SOBR is configured for "Move" and the content in question would have been rolled off and the GFS content is only available in the Capacity Tier.

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equarneti

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Answer: C Explanation: Based on the configuration shown in the image, backups older than 21 days are moved to the capacity tier. Since the VMware backup job retention is set for 31 days and keeps weekly GFS full backups for 14 weeks, the backup from the week of January 1st is older than 21 days but within the 14-week GFS retention policy. Therefore, as of March 20, the backup data you need to recover would be in the capacity tier, not on the local performance tier, because it has been offloaded to the object storage configured as the capacity tier to reduce long-term retention costs. Reference: Veeam Backup & Replication Documentation, Scale-Out Backup Repository Configuration

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