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VMCE Practice Question - 19 March 2025 (VTT)


coolsport00
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Hey all...posting a day early because I’ll be on vacation the next couple of weeks, starting EoD today. Really looking forward to beach, sun, and beverages 😎☀️🍹

Today’s question mirrors last week’s a little bit. Let’s see how you do…

Also, for those new to the VMCE page, please hide your comment (guess). To do so → before typing your response, click the ellipsis icon on the far right of the format toolbar at the top in your comment box and select the Spoiler option. This will place a ‘hide comment’ text box in your comment box area. Click inside this hide comment text box and start typing your answer (guess). Be careful to not click outside of the box or your comment will show after saving. We want your comment to not show so others can take full advantage of these practice questions. Let me know if you have issues. Good luck!

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A Scale-out Backup Repository with one local extent has been configured as follows (see exhibit below):
 

SOBR Settings

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

  1. In the Performance and Capacity Tiers
  2. In the Performance Tier
  3. In the Capacity Tier
  4. In the Archive Tier
 
 

 

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  1. In the Capacity Tier

These VMCE Study hall questions have been the best! I passed my VMCE this weekend thanks to these questions. Mega job to Shawn and the VMCE community


coolsport00
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That’s GREAT news! ​@ian.gatundu !! Congrats to you! I’m happy to hear these questions were of benefit to you!

BTW, I’m Shane, not Shawn. Ironically...Shawn is my brother’s name 😏 And oddly, no one really had a hard time keeping our name’s straight..even in school (he was a grade above me). haha

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coolsport00 wrote:

That’s GREAT news! ​@ian.gatundu !! Congrats to you! I’m happy to hear these questions were of benefit to you!

BTW, I’m Shane, not Shawn. Ironically...Shawn is my brother’s name 😏 And oddly, no one really had a hard time keeping our name’s straight..even in school (he was a grade above me). haha

Best.

Haha, my bad, the VMCE excitement is still flowing 😂. Oh, what a cool coincidence. All in all, these questions are so cool especially the bit for reasoning cause the exam is really practical and requires a lot of reasoning, otherwise these questions really made the exam a walkover.


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Thank you for sharing your experience Ian 😊


DavideAbrigo
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  1. In the Capacity Tier

 


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  1. In the Capacity Tier

 


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c - In the Capacity Tier

 


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  1. Capacity Tier

 


coolsport00
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Ok everyone...since I’m on vacay, gonna provide the answer a day early. See below.

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Let’s start with which available choice is not the answer. And that would be d. Archive Tier. The reason is obvious per the screenshot. Backup Files are transferred to the Archive only after 31 days. The question asks for a file from 1 Jan, on the 20th...so only a 19 day span.

That leaves either Performance Tier, Capacity Tier, or in both. I didn’t confirm the answer with Chris Tuss who devised this question, but I am pretty sure it is c. Capacity Tier. Why is that? Though the SOBR settings provided in the screenshot do show backup files are copied leading one to bellieve files would be in both Perf & Cap Tiers, take note of the Move setting, which shows at the operational window of 14 days, files are moved, as long as they meet the movement screening criteria, one very important of which is file(s) not being in a active chain. Since Weekly Fulls are configured, this should be the case. And thus, since files are moved, that would make c. correct and not a. or b.

 

For further reading/info, see below URL:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/capacity_tier_copy.html?ver=120

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/capacity_tier_move.html?ver=120

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/capacity_tier_inactive_backup_chain.html?ver=120

 

And though I’ll be on vacay, there will still be a VTT question next week. I have asked a special guest to post next week’s question on Wed and answer on Fri. So be ready! 🙂


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A special guest… 🤣 Enjoy vacation Shane!


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coolsport00 wrote:

Hey all...posting a day early because I’ll be on vacation the next couple of weeks, starting EoD today. Really looking forward to beach, sun, and beverages 😎☀️🍹

Today’s question mirrors last week’s a little bit. Let’s see how you do…

Also, for those new to the VMCE page, please hide your comment (guess). To do so → before typing your response, click the ellipsis icon on the far right of the format toolbar at the top in your comment box and select the Spoiler option. This will place a ‘hide comment’ text box in your comment box area. Click inside this hide comment text box and start typing your answer (guess). Be careful to not click outside of the box or your comment will show after saving. We want your comment to not show so others can take full advantage of these practice questions. Let me know if you have issues. Good luck!

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A Scale-out Backup Repository with one local extent has been configured as follows (see exhibit below):
 

SOBR Settings

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

  1. In the Performance and Capacity Tiers
  2. In the Performance Tier
  3. In the Capacity Tier
  4. In the Archive Tier
 
 

 

Hi Shane, I really liked this one, it really test our knowledge and concepts behind SOBR. great question!


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