Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) 2020 — Question 4

A company has been running off replicated, business-critical VMs at their disaster recovery location since an earthquake near the primary data center occurred.
Since the threat has passed, they want to stop the replicas and switch to the VMs at the primary data center without losing data. Which of the following actions is the first step they should take?

Answer options

• A. Failover
• B. Permanent failover
• C. Commit failback
• D. Failback to production
• E. Planned failover
• F. Undo failover

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The first step they should take is 'Failback to production' (D), as this action allows them to return to using the primary data center VMs while ensuring that no data is lost. The other options either imply a change that has already occurred (A, B, F) or are not the immediate next step in the process (C, E).