Acronis Product Fundamentals & Architecture Flashcards

What is the primary purpose of Acronis Universal Restore?

Answer: It allows a backup to be restored to hardware with different drivers or a different CPU architecture

Acronis Universal Restore injects the necessary drivers during recovery so a disk image backup can be restored to dissimilar hardware without causing boot failures.

In Acronis Cyber Protect, which replication mode sends backup data to a secondary location only AFTER the primary backup has completed successfully?

Answer: Backup replication (off-host copy)

Backup replication creates a copy of completed backup archives and transfers them asynchronously to a secondary destination after the primary backup job finishes.

When backing up VMware vSphere virtual machines in agentless mode, which VMware API does Acronis Cyber Protect leverage?

Answer: VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)

Acronis uses VMware VADP to perform agentless backup of vSphere VMs, enabling snapshot-based backups without installing agents inside each guest OS.

What does Acronis Cyber Protect's 'failover' capability in Disaster Recovery allow?

Answer: Instantly starting a backed-up machine as a cloud VM when the original machine fails

Acronis DR failover spins up a cloud replica of a protected machine in the Acronis Cloud, making it accessible over VPN or a public IP within minutes of a primary system failure.

Which Acronis bootable media type provides the broadest hardware compatibility when recovering on modern UEFI systems?

Answer: WinPE-based bootable media

WinPE-based bootable media includes modern Windows drivers and has superior UEFI Secure Boot support, making it the preferred choice for recovering on contemporary hardware.

In Acronis Cyber Protect, what is 'Acronis Secure Zone'?

Answer: A hidden, dedicated partition on the protected machine's own disk used as a local backup vault

Acronis Secure Zone is a protected hidden partition created on the local machine's hard drive where backups can be stored locally, isolated from the main OS volume.

Which Acronis feature enables recovery of an entire Microsoft Exchange mailbox or individual emails from a disk-level backup without restoring the entire Exchange server?

Answer: Acronis Application-Aware Backup with granular extraction

Application-Aware Backup captures VSS-consistent snapshots of Exchange databases, and Acronis's granular extraction tools let administrators browse and recover individual mailboxes or messages from disk-level backups.