ACE Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Strategies 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In Acronis Cyber Protect, which recovery time objective (RTO) scenario is best served by running a backup image directly as a virtual machine without full restoration?
- Bare metal restore
- Instant restore (runVM) (Correct answer)
- File-level recovery
- Granular restore
Correct answer: Instant restore (runVM)
Instant restore (runVM) lets you boot the backup image as a VM immediately, achieving near-zero RTO while full restoration completes in the background.
Question 2: Which Acronis concept defines the maximum tolerable amount of data an organization can afford to lose in a disaster, measured in time?
- RTO
- RPO (Correct answer)
- SLA
- MTD
Correct answer: RPO
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines how far back in time data loss is acceptable, directly driving backup frequency decisions.
Question 3: An Acronis administrator wants to ensure that backups stored on a NAS device are also replicated offsite automatically. Which Acronis feature achieves this without manual intervention?
- Backup replication rule (Correct answer)
- Retention rule
- Cleanup rule
- Archive consolidation
Correct answer: Backup replication rule
Backup replication rules in Acronis automatically copy backup files to a secondary location, ensuring offsite redundancy.
Question 4: When configuring a disaster recovery plan in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, which network mode allows recovered cloud servers to communicate with on-premises resources without exposing them to the public internet?
- Public IP mode
- Point-to-site VPN
- Multi-site VPN tunnel (Correct answer)
- Isolated network mode
Correct answer: Multi-site VPN tunnel
A multi-site VPN tunnel connects the Acronis DR cloud environment to on-premises infrastructure over an encrypted private channel.
Question 5: Which retention policy type in Acronis removes old backups based on the number of stored versions rather than their age?
- GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son)
- By age
- By count (Correct answer)
- Custom scheme
Correct answer: By count
The 'by count' retention policy deletes the oldest backup version once the specified maximum number of versions is exceeded.
Question 6: In Acronis, what is the primary purpose of bootable media created with Acronis Media Builder?
- To run backups on live systems
- To perform bare-metal restore on systems that cannot boot (Correct answer)
- To deploy Acronis agents remotely
- To sync backup plans across multiple machines
Correct answer: To perform bare-metal restore on systems that cannot boot
Bootable media allows you to recover a system from a backup even when the OS is unbootable, enabling bare-metal restore scenarios.
Question 7: Which Acronis Cyber Protect feature continuously tracks changes at the block level and captures them more frequently than scheduled backups to minimize data loss?
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP) (Correct answer)
- Incremental backup
- Differential backup
- Always-on backup
Correct answer: Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) captures every write to protected volumes in near real-time, reducing RPO to seconds.
ACE Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Strategies 2
In Acronis Cyber Protect, which recovery time objective (RTO) scenario is best served by running a backup image directly as a virtual machine without full restoration?