IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Implementation Exam Flashcards
Test your knowledge of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in preparation for the Implementation Exam
What are the 3 catalogs?
- Configuration Catalog - resources being protected
- Recovery Catalog - metadata about snapshots
- File Catalog - metadata about individual restore points
What can Jobs be scheduled for?
- Protecting virtual machines and applications
- Protecting the Spectrum Protect Plus catalog
- Running inventory
- Performing cleanup activities
What are 3 types of storage?
- Disk (vSnap storage server)
- Object Storage
- Repository Server
What reduces the load on Spectrum Protect Plus Server resources and balances workload for VMware virtual machine backups?
VADP proxies
What is the Administrative Console used for?
- Install software patches and updates
- Manage security certificates
- Working with time zones
- Starting and stopping IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Via which item in the Spectrum Protect Plus web-GUI left-hand menu would you find a mounted test restore?
Jobs and Operations > Active Resources
Where can you find upcoming scheduled jobs
Jobs and Operations > Schedule
Where can you find all job history and any running jobs?
Jobs and Operations > Running Jobs
Jobs and Operations > Job History
Where can you find a list of all SLA Policies by name with their Job Type, Frequency and Retention settings?
Manage Protection > Policy Overview
Where can you create a new SLA Policy?
Manage Protection > Policy Overview > Add SLA Policy
Name 5 database applications supported by Spectrum Protect Plus
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- Db2
- MongoDB
- Exchange Server
Name 2 ways to access the Alert Log
Reports and Logs > Audit Log
Click on the Bell in the top right of the web-GUI and View Event Log
What are the 7 panes which can be accessed via the System Configuration tab in the left-hand menu of the web-GUI?
- Backup Storage
- VADP Proxy
- Site
- LDAP/SMTP
- Script
- Keys and Certificates
- Global Preferences
What are the 3 Virtualized Systems supported in Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.7?
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- Amazon EC2
What are the 7 panes which can be accessed via the Manage Protection tab in the left-hand menu of the web-GUI?
- Policy Overview
- File Restore
- File Systems
- Containers
- Cloud Management
- Databases
- IBM Spectrum Protect Plus > Backup/Restore Catalogs
Where can a Restore Point be expired?
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus > Restore Point Retention
Which 5 criteria can be filtered on a Job Log?
- Info
- Warning
- Error
- Detail
- Summary
Where can you start a restore job?
Click on the Create Job button either in Jobs and Operations, or within any of the protected systems windows
What do you need to add before you can run an inventory and detect VMware virtual machines to protect?
vCenter server
What do you need to add before you can run an inventory and detect Hyper-V virtual machines to protect?
Hyper-V server
What do you need to add before you can run an inventory and detect Amazon EC2 virtual machines to protect?
An Amazon EC2 account with access and security keys
When protecting Amazon EC2 virtual machines, where is the data stored?
EC2 data is stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots rather than the vSnap server
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?
Catalog file metadata
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?
- User
- Role
- Resource Group
- Identity
What are the minimum requirements of the Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance?
- 8 vCPU cores 64-bit
- 48 GB RAM
- 536 GB disk storage
Using what kind of template is a Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance deployed on VMware?
OVF template
Which VMware disk provisioning is recommended for best performance for the Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance and vSnap servers?
Thick
Which tool allows you to give the Spectrum Protect Plus server a static IP address?
NMTUI - NetworkManager Text User Interface
Which account must you use upon first logon to a new Spectrum Protect Plus server at the CLI?
serveradmin
What is the URL of the Spectrum Protect Plus Administration Console including the port number?
https://hostname:8090
Where hostname is the IP address of the virtual machine where the application is deployed.
Which account must you use upon first logon to a new Spectrum Protect Plus server via the web-GUI?
admin
Both the username and password must be changed upon first logon.
When can AES 256-bit encryption be configured on a vSnap repository
At initialisation
In what 2 formats can a vSnap server be deployed?
As a virtual appliance or as a physical RHEL or CentOS Linux system
Which 3 restore destination options are available for a VMware restore?
- Original Host or Cluster
- Alternate Host or Cluster
- ESX host if vCenter is down
What are the 3 Instant VM restore modes?
- Production
- Test
- Clone
Which VMware function allows a VM restored in Test mode to be moved to Production or Clone mode?
vMotion
To protect a Microsoft 365 application, to what must you register the application and grant appropriate permissions?
Azure Active Directory
What optional vSnap storage, often on flash, is used to optimise backups when using deduplication, and performance for data reuse scenarios?
Cache
When deduplication is enabled with compression, which process is applied first to incoming blocks?
Compression
How can you control data flow between vSnap servers?
Enable throttle on the vSnap Site Properties
Where can you download patches?
The IBM Fix Central portal
What protocol is the data path between the VDAP proxy and the vSnap
NFS
What are the 4 transport modes between the vSphere datastore and the VADP proxy?
- san (physical VADP proxy)
- hotadd (virtual VADP proxy)
- nbdssl
- nbd
If a VADP proxy is down before a job starts, what happens?
The other proxies take over and complete the job
Name the 3 supported cloud targets for long-term copy and archive data
- IBM COS
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- Amazon S3 Object Storage
What are the 3 restore modes for SQL and Oracle databases?
- Instant Access mode
- Test mode
- Production mode
What are the 3 restore job types on the SQL database Source Snapshot page?
- On-demand: Snapshot
- On-demand: Point-in-Time
- Recurring
Which targets are supported for for full copy archive jobs?
- Amazon S3 Glacier
- IBM Cloud Object Storage Archive Tier
- Microsoft Azure Blob Archive
- IBM Spectrum Protect Server Tape Storage Pool
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?
Full then incremental for every subsequent backup job
What is the name of the tab in the Jobs and Operations pane which shows upcoming scheduled jobs?
Schedule
