ACE Backup Scheduling & Automation 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What Acronis technology enables backup jobs to run without significant impact on production workloads by limiting resource usage?
- Deduplication
- Throttling (Correct answer)
- Compression
- Replication
Correct answer: Throttling
Throttling in Acronis limits CPU and network bandwidth consumption during backup to reduce impact on production systems.
Question 2: In Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, which object allows MSPs to apply one backup plan to hundreds of devices simultaneously?
- Policy template
- Group plan
- Protection plan (Correct answer)
- Batch policy
Correct answer: Protection plan
A Protection Plan in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud can be applied to device groups, automating consistent coverage across many endpoints.
Question 3: What happens to a differential backup chain in Acronis if the base full backup is deleted?
- Differential backups become standalone recovery points
- The entire differential chain becomes unrestorable (Correct answer)
- Acronis automatically promotes the first differential to a full backup
- Only the most recent differential backup is affected
Correct answer: The entire differential chain becomes unrestorable
Differential backups depend on the base full backup for restoration; deleting the full backup invalidates the entire chain.
Question 4: Which Acronis scheduler option ensures that backups across multiple devices do not all start simultaneously, avoiding storage bottlenecks?
- Randomize backup start time (Correct answer)
- Staggered scheduling
- Load balancing
- Schedule offset
Correct answer: Randomize backup start time
Randomizing backup start times spreads backup jobs across a time window to prevent simultaneous storage hits.
Question 5: An Acronis protection plan is set to run incremental backups every 4 hours. What is the maximum potential data loss (RPO) in this configuration?
- Up to 2 hours
- Up to 4 hours (Correct answer)
- Up to 8 hours
- Up to 1 hour
Correct answer: Up to 4 hours
With 4-hour incremental intervals, up to 4 hours of data can be lost if a failure occurs just before the next backup.
Question 6: Which Acronis feature automates the transfer of backups to a secondary location after the primary backup completes?
- Backup replication (Correct answer)
- Offsite sync
- Cloud mirroring
- Secondary scheduling
Correct answer: Backup replication
Backup replication in Acronis automatically copies finished backups to a secondary destination for offsite or redundant storage.
Question 7: In Acronis, which retention rule removes backup versions that exceed a specified age regardless of how many versions exist?
- By number of versions
- By age of versions (Correct answer)
- By total size of backups
- By number of full backups
Correct answer: By age of versions
The 'By age of versions' retention rule deletes backup versions older than the configured time period.
ACE Backup Scheduling & Automation 3
What Acronis technology enables backup jobs to run without significant impact on production workloads by limiting resource usage?