Veeam Certified Architect v11 (VMCE11-A)

Describe RTOs and RPOs, what they mean for your business, how to manage and monitor performance against them

The 3-2-1 Rule and its importance in formulating a successful backup strategy

Identify key Veeam Availability Suite components and describe their usage scenarios and deployment types

Backup methods, the appropriate use cases and impact on underlying file systems

Create, modify, optimize and delete backup jobs, including Agents and NAS Backup jobs. Explore different tools and methods to maximize environment performance

Ensure efficiency by being able to select appropriate transport modes while being aware of the impact

of various backup functions on the infrastructure

Identify and describe the options available for replication and impacts of using them

Create and modify replication jobs, outline considerations to ensure success

Introduce the new Continuous Data Protection (CDP) policy

Simple vs. advanced backup copy jobs, how to create and modify them using best practices to ensure efficient recovery

Discuss using tapes for backups

Ensure repository scalability using a capability such as SOBR on-premises and off-site including integration with cloud storage

Ensure compatibility with existing deduplication appliances

Introduce the new hardened repository

Review how Veeam can protect the data of a cloud native application

Review how Veeam Cloud Connect enables you to take advantage of cloud services built on Veeam

Review how Veeam can be used to protect your Office 365 data

Ensure you have the confidence to use the correct restore tool at the right time for restoring VMs, bare metal and individual content such as files and folders

Utilize Secure Restore to prevent the restoration of malware

Describe how to use Staged Restore to comply with things like General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) before releasing restores to production

Identify, describe and utilize the different explores and instant recovery tools and features

Identify and describe in detail, failover features and the appropriate usage

Develop, prepare and test failover plans to ensure recovery

Disaster recovery from replica to meet a variety of real-world recovery needs

Testing backups and replicas to ensure you can recover, what you need, when you need to

Configure and setup virtual sandbox environments based on backup, replicas and storage snapshots

Introduce the concept of monitoring your virtual, physical and cloud environments with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager and Veeam ONE?

Locate, migrate or restore backup configuration

Review the architecture principles

Explore what a successful architecture looks like

Review Veeam?s architecture methodology

Analyze the existing environment

Uncover relevant infrastructure metrics

Uncover assumptions and risks

Identify complexity in the environment

Review scenario and data from discovery phase

Identify logical groups of objects that will share resources based on requirements

Create a set of detailed tables of business and technical requirements, constraints, assumptions and risks

Review infrastructure data with each product component in mind

Create high level design and data flow

Match critical components and features of VBR with requirements

Create logical groupings

Determine location of components and relationship to logical grouping

Aggregate totals of component resources needed per logical grouping

Calculate component (storage, CPU, memory) quantity sizing

Convert the logical design into a physical design

Physical hardware sizing

Create a list of physical Veeam backup components

Review physical design and implantation plan

Review Veeam deployment hardening

Describe the architect?s obligations to the implementation team

Provide guidance on implementation specifics that relate to the design

Provide framework for how to test the design

Further develop the design according to a modification scenario