ZCP – Zerto Certified Professional – ZCP Certification Exam Q and A

Posted on May 24, 2016

ZCP Certification Exam

Passing mark is atleast 75%, answers are highlighted in bold.

1) After performing a failover operation (Test, Live, Move) Zerto allows you to generate a report detailing the steps performed during the operation.

• True
• False

2) VPGs can only protect virtual machines running Mac OS X or Windows XP and newer.

• True
• False

3) To recover a single VPG after a corrupted database, which of these operations would be most effective?

• Journal file-level restore
• Offsite clone
• Live failover
• Backup restore

4) ZVR’s Journal is stored where?

• Production/source site
• Recovery/target site
• Both
• Neither

5) During a VPG sync, which of the following operations can be performed? Select all that apply.

• Add a VM to the group
• Remove a VM from the group
• Change length of Journal history for the group
• Change hard limit of Journal size for the group

6) Offsite Backups for a VPG should be scheduled to run at least every four hours, but no more than every 12 hours.

• True
• False

7) How much memory can be allocated to a Virtual Replication Appliance?

• 1 GB
• 3 GB
• Between 1-16 GB
• Between 2-8 GB

8) If both sites (target/recovery and source/production) are up, healthy, and accessible, which VPG-level operation is most appropriate?

• Live Failover
• Move/migration
• Offsite Clone
• JFLR

9) What basic method does ZVR use to protect data and applications?

• VM-level continuous replication
• Scheduled and on-demand snapshots
• Daily delta syncs
• Guest/agent-based replication

10) ZVR cannot function across different hypervisors, storage configurations, or host OS versions.

• True
• False

11) What must be true for a Move operation to be effective? Select all that apply.

• Both source (or production) and target (recovery) sites are up and accessible
• Each VM in the VPG has an up-to-date Journal
• The very latest copy of the data is required
• One of the site’s hosts has either a new VRA installed or an upgraded VRA

12) A fully configured ZVM on each paired site—e.g. production and recovery—requires which of the following? Select all that apply.

• Adding a site-specific license under Site Settings
• Creating matching VPGs on each site
• Installing VRAs on that site’s host(s)

13) Enabling auto-commit will always provide 30 minutes to validate the results of a failover before committing the changes.

• True
• False

14) ZVR has built-in support for scheduled bandwidth throttling that can work with or without other hardware/software also managing this.

• True
• False

15) What characterizes the kinds of VMs you should group together in the same VPG?

• Each are using the same datastore or volume for storage
• They need to maintain consistency with each other and all be failed over or recovered together
• All are running both the same OS and same hypervisor
• The journal is sized the same on each VM

16) Adding a VM to an existing VPG means… (Select all that apply)

• The entire VPG will be re-synchronized to ensure group consistency
• The VPG protection will need to be paused before adding the additional VM
• A checkpoint will be automatically inserted in the Journal prior to adding the VM
• A Live Failover cannot be executed until the updated VPG is fully synchronized

17) What is the Journal?

• Audit trail to track which operations were performed and when
• Series of checkpoints tracking block-level changes within VMs
• Detailed list of every snapshot, whether automatic or manually generated snapshots
• Compliance record of each VPG’s replication status at any given checkpoint

18) The ZVR installer includes which of the following components? Select all that apply.

• Local copies of the ZVR documentation specific to your hypervisor
• One license key for each site you’ll use with Zerto
• Microsoft .NET Framework in case the machine does not already have it installed
• VRA template for a custom-designed Zerto VM
• A Virtual Backup Appliance (VBA) for managing backups

19) If you needed to test the failover of an entire virtualized datacenter, what best practices should be followed? Select all that apply.

• Perform the test during off hours or on the weekend
• Clone the VPGs you want to test prior to starting the failover test
• Use an isolated/fenced network for testing
• Always stop the test from within ZVM and not your hypervisor’s management console(s)
• Provision a sandbox where ZVR can deploy the test VMs

20) What is a Virtual Replication Appliance?

• Lightweight agent installed on each VM in a protection group
• Snapshot engine that powers the ZVR Journal
• Custom Linux VM performing continuous replication
• A hypervisor plugin/add-on to manage cross-hypervisor replication

21) ZVR 4.5 allows for Journal Compression to increase storage capacity for journal history.

• True
• False

22) If the hypervisor service/admin account provided during installation is incorrect, ZVR will still proceed with the installation and ask for re-validation after installation is complete.

• True
• False

23) When configuring a Failover Test network, what is Zerto’s recommended best practice?

• Test and production network should be the same to ensure consistency
• Test network should be isolated/fenced
• The ZVM should be on a test network
• Pause replication on production network when using a test network during a test

24) What operating system is running on the VRA virtual machine?

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Windows Server 2012

25) What VPG configuration option would give you the ability to stagger when and how your protected VMs start?

• Bandwidth Throttling
• Re-IP
• Pre/Post Operation Scripting
• Boot Order Groups