ACE Acronis Product Fundamentals & Architecture 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which backup scheme in Acronis Cyber Protect creates a full backup on the first run and then stores only changes relative to the most recent backup of ANY type?
- Differential scheme
- Incremental scheme (Correct answer)
- Always-full scheme
- Forever-incremental scheme
Correct answer: Incremental scheme
The incremental backup scheme stores changes made since the last backup of any type (full or incremental), resulting in the smallest individual backup size.
Question 2: What does the 'grandfather-father-son' (GFS) retention model in Acronis primarily control?
- The number of storage nodes used per backup job
- How long daily, weekly, and monthly backup copies are kept before deletion (Correct answer)
- The priority order of backup agents when resources are constrained
- The replication lag between primary and secondary storage
Correct answer: How long daily, weekly, and monthly backup copies are kept before deletion
GFS retention assigns different lifespans to daily (son), weekly (father), and monthly (grandfather) backups, balancing recovery granularity with storage consumption.
Question 3: In Acronis Cyber Protect, granular recovery of individual files from a disk-level backup is possible because the product:
- Re-runs the backup job at file level in the background
- Mounts the backup archive as a virtual volume and browses its filesystem (Correct answer)
- Extracts the file index from the management server database
- Decompresses the entire backup to a temp folder before extraction
Correct answer: Mounts the backup archive as a virtual volume and browses its filesystem
Acronis mounts disk-level backup archives as virtual drives, allowing the filesystem to be browsed and individual files or folders to be recovered without restoring the entire disk.
Question 4: Which scheduling option in Acronis Cyber Protect triggers a backup immediately when it detects that the machine was offline during a previously scheduled backup window?
- Wake-on-LAN trigger
- Missed backup run recovery (Correct answer)
- Event-based scheduling
- Run backup when machine is idle
Correct answer: Missed backup run recovery
The 'missed backup run recovery' option tells the agent to launch the skipped backup as soon as the machine comes back online after missing its scheduled window.
Question 5: What is the purpose of backup validation in Acronis Cyber Protect?
- It encrypts the backup archive with an additional layer of AES
- It verifies data integrity by checking checksums of all backed-up data blocks (Correct answer)
- It replicates the backup to a secondary location for redundancy
- It tests whether the backup schedule runs on time
Correct answer: It verifies data integrity by checking checksums of all backed-up data blocks
Validation reads every data block in the backup archive and verifies checksums to confirm the archive is not corrupted and can be used for recovery.
Question 6: When using Acronis Cyber Protect's 'Always Incremental (Single-file)' backup scheme, how are backup chains stored?
- As separate full and incremental .tibx files that must be chained manually
- As a single continuously growing .tibx file that self-manages its internal structure (Correct answer)
- As a compressed ZIP archive refreshed on each backup run
- As a delta-file pair referencing a snapshot stored on the hypervisor
Correct answer: As a single continuously growing .tibx file that self-manages its internal structure
The Always Incremental scheme stores all backups inside a single .tibx container file, where Acronis manages full, incremental, and cleanup operations internally.
Question 7: In Acronis Cyber Protect, what happens to recovery points when a retention rule is triggered during a backup job?
- Old recovery points are immediately deleted before the new backup starts
- The new backup is created first, then outdated recovery points are cleaned up afterward (Correct answer)
- The backup job pauses and waits for administrator approval to delete old recovery points
- Outdated recovery points are archived to tape before deletion
Correct answer: The new backup is created first, then outdated recovery points are cleaned up afterward
Acronis applies the cleanup AFTER the new backup completes successfully, ensuring there is always at least one valid recovery point available even during the cleanup process.
ACE Acronis Product Fundamentals & Architecture 3
Which backup scheme in Acronis Cyber Protect creates a full backup on the first run and then stores only changes relative to the most recent backup of ANY type?