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You have a computer that runs Windows 10 Pro. You receive a SMART alert that the hard disk drive will fail soon. You connect a second external hard disk drive to the computer. You need to create a…
The correct answer is D. wbadmin.exe. wbadmin.exe is the correct built-in command-line tool in Windows 10 Pro for creating a full system image backup to an external drive that supports bare-metal restore to a replacement drive.
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You have a computer that runs Windows 10 Pro. You receive a SMART alert that the hard disk drive will fail soon. You connect a second external hard disk drive to the computer. You need to create a backup that you can use to restore the operating system and the user documents to a replacement drive. What should you use?
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- AStart-WB Backup
- BStart-OB Backup
- Cvssadmin.exe
- Dwbadmin.exe
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(21 responses)- A5% (1)
- B5% (1)
- D90% (19)
Why each option
wbadmin.exe is the correct built-in command-line tool in Windows 10 Pro for creating a full system image backup to an external drive that supports bare-metal restore to a replacement drive.
Start-WBBackup is a PowerShell cmdlet from the WindowsServerBackup module, which is only available on Windows Server editions and is not present in Windows 10 Pro.
Start-OBBackup is a PowerShell cmdlet for the Microsoft Azure Backup (Online Backup) agent and initiates cloud backup, not a local image backup to an external drive.
vssadmin.exe manages Volume Shadow Copy Service provider registrations and shadow copy storage, but it cannot create a bootable system image backup restorable to a replacement drive.
wbadmin.exe is the native Windows Backup command-line utility included in Windows 10 Pro that supports the 'start backup' subcommand to capture the OS volume and user data to an external hard drive. The resulting image can be used with Windows Recovery Environment to perform a full system restore to a replacement hard disk, satisfying both OS and user document recovery requirements.
Concept tested: System image backup to external drive using wbadmin.exe
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/wbadmin-start-backup
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