BACK IT UP
VSS
DATA PROTECTION
SCHEDULING
OPTIMIZATION
100
A recovery option that allows you to recover your server from a hard drive failure to a machine running the same/different hardware.
What is a bare metal recovery?
100
This is used to create and delete volume shadow copies/associations, list shadow copy providers and writers, and resize a volume shadow storage association.
What is Volume Shadow Copy Administrative Command-line Tool (VSSAdmin)?
100
This backup copies only the files that have changed since the last full backup and does not reset the archive bit.
What is a differential backup?
100
Never use manual backups as a replacement for this.
What is your regularly scheduled backup?
100
When using remote shares, you specify the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path (\\servername\share) to provide the location for storing the backup. If you decide to change this after backups are executed,this will happen.
What is you will no longer be able to recover your backup data without performing a full restore and creating a new UNC path or resetting the share back to its original configuration?
200
A way to capture the state, data, and hardware configurations for a VM at a specific point in time.
What is a snapshot?
200
A Windows component that takes a snapshot of the volume’s current data, which is used by Windows Server Backup to back up the data.
What is Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)?
200
This backup copies all files that have changed since the last backup.
What is an incremental backup?
200
If you back up to a network shared folder, you must consider this limitation.
What is the remote shared folder will hold only one backup at a time?
300
This contains the data you want to copy (backup).
What is the source volume?
300
The command-prompt backup utilities provided with Windows.
What is WBADMIN?
300
This service allows data backup "to the cloud."
What is Windows Azure Online Backup.
300
The action of Windows Server Backup reading the blocks in the order they appear on the disk instead of reading them in the order they appear in files, which are usually fragmented across the disk.
What is block-level backup?
300
The Windows Server Backup MMC snap-in is not installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 systems running this version of server.
What is server core?
400
The part of Windows that includes the registry, boot files, the COM+ class registration database, the Active Directory database (ntds.dit) and its associated log files, the Active Directory Certificate Services database, the SYSVOL folder, and system files under the protection of Windows Resource protection.
What is the system state?
400
The graphical backup utility included with Windows.
What is Windows Server Backup?
400
The maximum amount of time you have to bring a system back online before it has a significant impact on your organization.
What is the Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?
400
The minimum forest functional level your Active Directory forest must meet to enable the Active Directory Recycle Bin.
What is your forest functional level should be set to at least Windows Server 2008 R2 or greater?
400
This shared folder holds logon and logoff scripts.
What is SYSVOL?
500
This uses the capabilities of the VSS to capture and store copies of folders and files (located on shared network resources) from a specific point in time.
What is Shadow Copies for Shared Volumes (SCSV)?
500
This creates and maintains the shadow copies.
What is the VSS Provider?
500
The system state cannot be backed up to this medium when using Windows Server Backup.
What is DVD? (or Optical Media)
500
This uses the capabilities of the VSS to capture and store copies of folders and files (located on shared network resources) at a specific point in time.
What is Shadow Copies for Shared Volumes?
500
Before VSS takes a backup, it tells the VSS Writers to do this.
What is VSS tells the VSS Writers to quiesce (pause) their data and temporarily queue any I/O write requests from applications?