Veeam Certified Engineer + Advanced: Architecture & Design v12.1 («VMCEPA»)

Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3: Configure, Manage and Recover

1 Data protection strategies 
Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data.

2 Analysis of risks to data 
Explore different risk scenarios, what risks do we face daily within our environment? 

3 What is protected? 
Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario. 

4 Security and protection considerations 
Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks. 

5 Protecting workloads 
Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs.

6 Deploying agents
Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs.

7 Unstructured data backup 
List required components and features available to protect unstructured data.

8 Optimizing your backups 
Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency. 

9 Immutability and hardened repositories 
Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications. Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability. 

10 Backup infrastructure optimization 
List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance. 

11 Replication 
Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies. 

12 Backup copy jobs 
Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs. 

13 Long-term retention 
List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies. 

14 Scale-out Backup Repository™ 
Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories. 

15 Move and copy backups with VeeaMover 
Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover. 

16 Recovery verification 
Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas. 

17 Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager 
Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager. 

18 Incident Response Planning 
Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan. 

19 Advanced recovery features 
Explore some more in-depth recovery features of Veeam Backup and Replication.

20 Selecting the ideal recovery method 
What are the implications of different recovery methods and selecting the correct recovery method. 

21 Enacting a recovery 
Get practice in recovering different recovery types with a variety of data types. 

22 Malware Detection 
Using Veeam’s malware detection capabilities.

23 Post-incident processes 
Investigate post-incident activities.

Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1: Architecture and Design

1 Review the architecture principles

• Explore what a successful architecture looks like 
• Review Veeam’s architecture methodology 
• Discovery 
• Analyze the existing environment 
• Uncover relevant infrastructure metrics 
• Uncover assumptions and risks 
• Identify complexity in the environment

2 Conceptual design

• 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 

3 Logical design

• 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 

4 Physical design

• Convert the logical design into a physical design
• Physical hardware sizing
• Create a list of physical Veeam backup components 

5 Implementation and Governance

• 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 

6 Validation and Iteration

• Provide framework for how to test the design
• Further develop the design according to a modification scenario

Senior Engineers and Architects responsible for creating architectures for Veeam environments

Experience and solid knowledge of servers, storage, networking and virtualization is required.

After completing this course package, you will have the opportunity to take the «Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE)» and «Veeam Certified Engineer Advanced (VMCA)» exams. Upon successful completion, you will receive the «Veeam Certified Architect» certificate.

Exam
The Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) costs CHF 162 and the Veeam Certified Engineer Advanced costs CHF 300 and can be taken optionally.

Repetition
In the case of a retake, the participant is responsible for the exam costs and ordering.

Further information about the exam
On the Veeam portal you will find more answers to your questions about the Veeam certification exam.

Price information
When you book this course package, you benefit from an exclusive price advantage of CHF 400.– on the individually bookable modules. You arrange the dates to your liking.