IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Implementation Exam

Question 1

What are the 3 catalogs?

Answer 1

• Configuration Catalog - resources being protected
• Recovery Catalog - metadata about snapshots
• File Catalog - metadata about individual restore points

Question 2

What can Jobs be scheduled for?

Answer 2

• Protecting virtual machines and applications
• Protecting the Spectrum Protect Plus catalog
• Running inventory
• Performing cleanup activities

Question 3

What are 3 types of storage?

Answer 3

• Disk (vSnap storage server)
• Object Storage
• Repository Server

Question 4

What reduces the load on Spectrum Protect Plus Server resources and balances workload for VMware virtual machine backups?

Answer 4

VADP proxies

Question 5

What is the Administrative Console used for?

Answer 5

• Install software patches and updates
• Manage security certificates
• Working with time zones
• Starting and stopping IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Question 6

Via which item in the Spectrum Protect Plus web-GUI left-hand menu would you find a mounted test restore?

Answer 6

Jobs and Operations > Active Resources

Question 7

Where can you find upcoming scheduled jobs

Answer 7

Jobs and Operations > Schedule

Question 8

Where can you find all job history and any running jobs?

Answer 8

Jobs and Operations > Running Jobs

Jobs and Operations > Job History

Question 9

Where can you find a list of all SLA Policies by name with their Job Type, Frequency and Retention settings?

Answer 9

Manage Protection > Policy Overview

Question 10

Where can you create a new SLA Policy?

Answer 10

Manage Protection > Policy Overview > Add SLA Policy

Question 11

Name 5 database applications supported by Spectrum Protect Plus

Answer 11

• SQL Server
• Oracle
• Db2
• MongoDB
• Exchange Server

Question 12

Name 2 ways to access the Alert Log

Answer 12

Reports and Logs > Audit Log

Click on the Bell in the top right of the web-GUI and View Event Log

Question 13

What are the 7 panes which can be accessed via the System Configuration tab in the left-hand menu of the web-GUI?

Answer 13

• Backup Storage
• VADP Proxy
• Site
• LDAP/SMTP
• Script
• Keys and Certificates
• Global Preferences

Question 14

What are the 3 Virtualized Systems supported in Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.7?

Answer 14

• VMware
• Hyper-V
• Amazon EC2

Question 15

What are the 7 panes which can be accessed via the Manage Protection tab in the left-hand menu of the web-GUI?

Answer 15

• Policy Overview
• File Restore
• File Systems
• Containers
• Cloud Management
• Databases
• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus > Backup/Restore Catalogs

Question 16

Where can a Restore Point be expired?

Answer 16

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus > Restore Point Retention

Question 17

Which 5 criteria can be filtered on a Job Log?

Answer 17

• Info
• Warning
• Error
• Detail
• Summary

Question 18

Where can you start a restore job?

Answer 18

Click on the Create Job button either in Jobs and Operations, or within any of the protected systems windows

Question 19

What do you need to add before you can run an inventory and detect VMware virtual machines to protect?

Answer 19

vCenter server

Question 20

What do you need to add before you can run an inventory and detect Hyper-V virtual machines to protect?

Answer 20

Hyper-V server

Question 21

What do you need to add before you can run an inventory and detect Amazon EC2 virtual machines to protect?

Answer 21

An Amazon EC2 account with access and security keys

Question 22

When protecting Amazon EC2 virtual machines, where is the data stored?

Answer 22

EC2 data is stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots rather than the vSnap server

Question 23

What must be enabled to allow individual files to be restored from VM backups via the File Restore pane in the Spectrum Protect Plus web-GUI?

Answer 23

Catalog file metadata

Question 24

What are the 4 panes which can be accessed via the Accounts tab in the left-hand menu of the Spectrum Protect Plus web-GUI?

Answer 24

• User
• Role
• Resource Group
• Identity

Question 25

What are the minimum requirements of the Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance?

Answer 25

- 8 vCPU cores 64-bit - 48 GB RAM - 536 GB disk storage

Question 26

Using what kind of template is a Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance deployed on VMware?

Answer 26

OVF template

Question 27

Which VMware disk provisioning is recommended for best performance for the Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance and vSnap servers?

Answer 27

Thick

Question 28

Which tool allows you to give the Spectrum Protect Plus server a static IP address?

Answer 28

NMTUI - NetworkManager Text User Interface

Question 29

Which account must you use upon first logon to a new Spectrum Protect Plus server at the CLI?

Answer 29

serveradmin

Question 30

What is the URL of the Spectrum Protect Plus Administration Console including the port number?

Answer 30

https://hostname:8090 Where hostname is the IP address of the virtual machine where the application is deployed.

Question 31

Which account must you use upon first logon to a new Spectrum Protect Plus server via the web-GUI?

Answer 31

admin | Both the username and password must be changed upon first logon.

Question 32

When can AES 256-bit encryption be configured on a vSnap repository

Answer 32

At initialisation

Question 33

In what 2 formats can a vSnap server be deployed?

Answer 33

As a virtual appliance or as a physical RHEL or CentOS Linux system

Question 34

Which 3 restore destination options are available for a VMware restore?

Answer 34

- Original Host or Cluster - Alternate Host or Cluster - ESX host if vCenter is down

Question 35

What are the 3 Instant VM restore modes?

Answer 35

- Production - Test - Clone

Question 36

Which VMware function allows a VM restored in Test mode to be moved to Production or Clone mode?

Answer 36

vMotion

Question 37

To protect a Microsoft 365 application, to what must you register the application and grant appropriate permissions?

Answer 37

Azure Active Directory

Question 38

What optional vSnap storage, often on flash, is used to optimise backups when using deduplication, and performance for data reuse scenarios?

Answer 38

Cache

Question 39

When deduplication is enabled with compression, which process is applied first to incoming blocks?

Answer 39

Compression

Question 40

How can you control data flow between vSnap servers?

Answer 40

Enable throttle on the vSnap Site Properties

Question 41

Where can you download patches?

Answer 41

The IBM Fix Central portal

Question 42

What protocol is the data path between the VDAP proxy and the vSnap

Answer 42

NFS

Question 43

What are the 4 transport modes between the vSphere datastore and the VADP proxy?

Answer 43

- san (physical VADP proxy) - hotadd (virtual VADP proxy) - nbdssl - nbd

Question 44

If a VADP proxy is down before a job starts, what happens?

Answer 44

The other proxies take over and complete the job

Question 45

Name the 3 supported cloud targets for long-term copy and archive data

Answer 45

- IBM COS - Microsoft Azure Blob Storage - Amazon S3 Object Storage

Question 46

What are the 3 restore modes for SQL and Oracle databases?

Answer 46

- Instant Access mode - Test mode - Production mode

Question 47

What are the 3 restore job types on the SQL database Source Snapshot page?

Answer 47

- On-demand: Snapshot - On-demand: Point-in-Time - Recurring

Question 48

Which targets are supported for for full copy archive jobs?

Answer 48

- Amazon S3 Glacier - IBM Cloud Object Storage Archive Tier - Microsoft Azure Blob Archive - IBM Spectrum Protect Server Tape Storage Pool

Question 49

When using Standard object storage, such as Azure Blob Cool Tier, to copy snapshots to the cloud for long-term retention, are these backups full, incremental or differential?

Answer 49

Full then incremental for every subsequent backup job

Question 50

What is the name of the tab in the Jobs and Operations pane which shows upcoming scheduled jobs?

Answer 50

Schedule