1 - What can be protected?

• Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario.

2 - Secure your backup server

• Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks.

3 - Application consistency with secure authentication

• Achieve application-consistent backups of virtual machines while maintaining operating system secure authentication.

4 - Protecting workloads

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

5 - Deploying agents

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

6 - Protecting NAS

• List required components and features available to protect NAS solutions.

7 - Optimizing your backups

• Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency.

8 - Immutability

• Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications.

9 - Linux Hardened Repository

• Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux Hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability.

10 - Object storge repositories

• Describe use cases, advantages and considerations to implement object storage solutions as Veeam backup repositories.

11 - Backup infrastructure optimization

• List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance.

12 - Replication

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

13 - Backup copy jobs

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

14 - Long-term retention

• List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies.

15 - Scale-out Backup Repository™

• Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories (SOBRs).

16 - Move and copy backups with VeeaMover

• Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover.

17 - Recovery verification

• Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas.

18 - Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

• Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

19 - Recovery scenario - Virtual machine failure

• Choose from different methods to recover a virtual machine from the backup.

20 - Recovery scenario - Ransomware attack

• Securely restore a server after a ransomware incident with malware scanning of volumes directly from the backup and as part of the restore process.

21 - Recovery scenario - Agent recovery

• Explore available options to restore data from agent backups.

22 - Recovery scenario - Explorer recovery

• Use Veeam Explorers™ to recover application items directly from image-level backups.

23 - Recovery scenario - Guest file recovery

• Restore guest operating system files directly from image-level backups and from diverse guest file systems.

24 - Recovery scenario - Recovery from replica

• Describe virtual machine states available when recovering a virtual machine from its replica and mechanisms to avoid data loss and interdependent services recovery.

25 - Recovery scenario - Instant NAS recovery

• List steps and considerations to instantly recover an entire file share from its backup.