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You need to choose a backup solution. Which solution should you choose?
The correct answer is A. SharePoint backup from the Central Administration console. SharePoint Central Administration provides native farm-level backup functionality designed specifically for SharePoint environments, making it the recommended backup method.
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- ASharePoint backup from the Central Administration console
- BSQL Server backup by using SQL Server Management Studio
- CWindows Server Backup in Windows Server 2012
- DSharePoint backup by using Data Protection Manager (DPM)
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(29 responses)- A86% (25)
- B3% (1)
- C3% (1)
- D7% (2)
Why each option
SharePoint Central Administration provides native farm-level backup functionality designed specifically for SharePoint environments, making it the recommended backup method.
SharePoint Central Administration includes a built-in backup and restore interface that captures all SharePoint-specific configuration, content databases, and service applications as a coordinated unit. This ensures consistency across all SharePoint components and preserves SharePoint metadata that raw SQL or OS-level backups may not fully capture. It is the native, supported method for SharePoint farm-level backup.
SQL Server Management Studio backups only capture the raw database files and do not account for SharePoint-specific configurations, service application settings, or the relationships between databases that Central Administration backup preserves.
Windows Server Backup can back up volumes and files but is not SharePoint-aware and cannot perform a coordinated, consistent backup of a SharePoint farm's distributed components and databases.
While DPM is a valid enterprise backup tool that supports SharePoint, in the context of this question the simpler and directly supported native option is Central Administration, which is the recommended baseline approach.
Concept tested: SharePoint farm backup using Central Administration
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/administration/back-up-a-farm
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