STUDY PLAN · VRO-13

VRO-13 study plan

A week-by-week way through Ultra Transcenders VRO-13: Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 13, chapter by chapter, with the free study notes and the exam skill areas each week covers. Pick a pace; tick weeks off as you go (your ticks stay in this browser).

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3 weeks of reading, about 6–8 hours a week with the book, then a review week.

Week 1chapters 1–3 · about 6 hours

Exam skill areas this week: Course modulesVMCE+ v13: Orchestration and Disaster Recovery · 10%

Week 2chapters 4–6 · about 7 hours

  • Read these chapters:
    • 4. Connecting infrastructure and grouping workloads
    • 5. Recovery locations
    • 6. Recovery plans
  • After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
  • Look up any unfamiliar term in the VRO-13 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Course modulesVMCE+ v13: Orchestration and Disaster Recovery · 10%

Week 3chapters 7–10 · about 8 hours

Exam skill areas this week: Course modulesVMCE+ v13: Orchestration and Disaster Recovery · 10%

Week 4review

  • Go back through every chapter’s key takeaways. Anything you can’t explain without looking, re-read that section.
  • Re-read the common-trap callouts: they mark the answers that look right but aren’t.
  • Check the exam coverage map against Veeam’s own outline, in case it has changed since the book was checked.
  • Read the official Veeam course outline once more and tick off every objective.

7 weeks of reading, about 2–4 hours a week with the book, then a review week.

Week 1chapters 1–2 · about 4 hours

  • Read these chapters:
    • 1. Recovery orchestration and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator
    • 2. Architecture, requirements and deployment
  • After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
  • Free study notes for this week: Veeam Recovery Orchestrator plan types.
  • Look up any unfamiliar term in the VRO-13 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Course modulesVMCE+ v13: Orchestration and Disaster Recovery · 10%

Week 2chapter 3 · about 2 hours

Exam skill areas this week: Course modules

Week 3chapter 4 · about 2 hours

  • Read chapter:
    • 4. Connecting infrastructure and grouping workloads
  • After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
  • Look up any unfamiliar term in the VRO-13 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Course modules

Week 4chapter 5 · about 2 hours

  • Read chapter:
    • 5. Recovery locations
  • After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
  • Look up any unfamiliar term in the VRO-13 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Course modules

Week 5chapter 6 · about 2 hours

  • Read chapter:
    • 6. Recovery plans
  • After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
  • Look up any unfamiliar term in the VRO-13 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Course modulesVMCE+ v13: Orchestration and Disaster Recovery · 10%

Week 6chapters 7–8 · about 4 hours

Exam skill areas this week: Course modulesVMCE+ v13: Orchestration and Disaster Recovery · 10%

Week 7chapters 9–10 · about 4 hours

  • Read these chapters:
    • 9. Ransomware recovery: malware scans and clean room failover
    • 10. Reports, dashboards and operations
  • After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
  • Free study notes for this week: Clean room recovery with Veeam Recovery Orchestrator.
  • Look up any unfamiliar term in the VRO-13 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Course modulesVMCE+ v13: Orchestration and Disaster Recovery · 10%

Week 8review

  • Go back through every chapter’s key takeaways. Anything you can’t explain without looking, re-read that section.
  • Re-read the common-trap callouts: they mark the answers that look right but aren’t.
  • Check the exam coverage map against Veeam’s own outline, in case it has changed since the book was checked.
  • Read the official Veeam course outline once more and tick off every objective.

The hours are a rough guide to reading time with the book. Add hands-on practice as you go: some hands-on time in a Veeam Backup & Replication lab makes every chapter stick.

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