VEEAM VMCA2022 Exam - Topic 5 Question 1 Discussion

Actual exam question for VEEAM's VMCA2022 exam

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Topic #: 5

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Going through the discovery data, you examine the requirement for one-hour backups of gold tier virtual machines. Some of these servers have been identified as having large VMDKs with large bursts of I/O. Which

requirement would you be breaking if you separated these virtual machines into their own backup jobs?

ABackups must be dynamically scoped to reduce administrative overhead.

BGold tier machines have a recovery time objective of 30 minutes and a recovery point objective of one hour.
C Mission-critical applications must not be affected by backup processes.

DAlternative backup methods for virtual machines that are mission critical and susceptible to stuns must be used.

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Suggested Answer: A

If you separated the large VMDKs into their own backup jobs, you would be creating more manual work for the backup administrator, who would have to configure and maintain multiple jobs for the same group of VMs. This would go against the requirement of reducing administrative overhead by using dynamic scoping.

Dynamic scoping is a feature of Veeam Backup & Replication that allows you to automatically include or exclude VMs from backup jobs based on tags, attributes, or policies1. For example, you can use VMware tags to assign a backup policy to a VM, and then use the tag as a filter in the backup job. This way, any VM with that tag will be automatically added to the backup job, and any VM without that tag will be automatically excluded. This simplifies the backup management and ensures that all VMs are protected according to their assigned policy.

For large VMDKs with high I/O, you can use alternative backup methods to avoid performance impact and stuns, such as storage snapshots, direct SAN access, or hot-add2.You can also use different storage optimization options to balance the deduplication ratio and the backup file size3. These options can be configured within the same backup job, without the need to separate the large VMDKs.

You can find more information about dynamic scoping and backup methods for large VMDKs in the following resources:

How to Use Dynamic Scoping in Veeam Backup & Replication

Backing up large vmdks (~12 TB)

Backup strategies for a large VM

by Eliseo at Nov 16, 2024, 07:29 PM

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Jenelle

3 months ago

I thought separating them would help, not hurt!

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Vivan

3 months ago

C seems relevant too, but B is definitely the main concern.

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Tonja

3 months ago

Wait, are we sure about that? What if the backups are optimized?

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Reynalda

4 months ago

Totally agree, RTO and RPO are crucial!

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Ilene

4 months ago

Sounds like B is the one you'd be breaking.

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Elza

4 months ago

I'm leaning towards D since it talks about alternative methods for mission-critical VMs, but I need to double-check my notes on that.

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Anjelica

4 months ago

I feel like the answer could be B, but I also recall something about administrative overhead being important too.

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Sharen

4 months ago

I remember a practice question that mentioned something about mission-critical applications and their backup processes. Could that be relevant here?

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Carma

5 months ago

I think separating the VMs might break the requirement about recovery time objectives, but I'm not entirely sure.

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Jeffrey

5 months ago

I've got a strategy here. Since the question is asking which requirement we'd be breaking, I'm going to carefully read through the answer choices and see which one best matches the information provided in the question. That should help me narrow it down.

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Jerry

5 months ago

Okay, let's see. The key things I'm looking at are the one-hour backup requirement for gold tier VMs, and the fact that some of these VMs have large VMDKs and I/O bursts. If we separate them into their own backup jobs, I think we might be breaking the recovery time objective (RTO) or recovery point objective (RPO) requirement. But I'll double-check the options to be sure.

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Roselle

5 months ago

Hmm, I'm a bit confused here. The question is asking about which requirement we'd be breaking, but it's not totally clear to me what the different requirements are. I'll need to re-read the question carefully.

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Rosina

5 months ago

This seems like a tricky one. I'll need to think carefully about the requirements and how separating the VMs into their own backup jobs might impact them.

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