ACE Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Strategies 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A company uses the 3-2-1 backup rule. Which statement correctly describes this rule as implemented in Acronis?
- 3 backups on 2 media types, 1 encrypted
- 3 copies of data, 2 on different media, 1 offsite (Correct answer)
- 3 retention versions, 2 sites, 1 cloud archive
- 3 daily backups, 2 weekly, 1 monthly
Correct answer: 3 copies of data, 2 on different media, 1 offsite
The 3-2-1 rule mandates 3 copies of data stored on 2 different media types with 1 copy kept offsite for disaster resilience.
Question 2: In Acronis Cyber Protect, which backup scheme captures only the data that has changed since the last backup of any type, resulting in faster backups but a longer recovery chain?
- Full backup
- Differential backup
- Incremental backup (Correct answer)
- Synthetic full backup
Correct answer: Incremental backup
Incremental backups capture changes since the last backup of any type (full or incremental), making them fast to create but requiring the full chain for recovery.
Question 3: Which Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud DR feature allows administrators to test failover without impacting production systems?
- Production failover
- Test failover in isolated network (Correct answer)
- Partial failover
- Live migration
Correct answer: Test failover in isolated network
Test failover spins up recovered servers in an isolated network so DR readiness can be verified without affecting live production environments.
Question 4: An Acronis engineer needs to recover a single email from an Exchange database backup without restoring the entire mailbox server. Which recovery method should be used?
- Bare-metal restore
- Granular recovery for Microsoft Exchange (Correct answer)
- File-level restore
- Application-consistent restore
Correct answer: Granular recovery for Microsoft Exchange
Acronis granular recovery for Microsoft Exchange allows extraction of individual emails, folders, or mailboxes directly from a backup without full server restoration.
Question 5: What does 'application-consistent backup' mean in the context of Acronis Cyber Protect?
- The backup is encrypted at the application layer
- VSS or freeze/thaw mechanisms ensure application data is in a consistent state before capture (Correct answer)
- The backup runs during application maintenance windows only
- Application logs are excluded from the backup
Correct answer: VSS or freeze/thaw mechanisms ensure application data is in a consistent state before capture
Application-consistent backups use VSS (Windows) or freeze/thaw scripts to quiesce applications so data is captured in a transactionally consistent state.
Question 6: Which Acronis storage tier is designed for long-term archival of rarely accessed backup data at a lower cost?
- Hot storage
- Cloud archive tier (Correct answer)
- Primary storage pool
- Deduplication store
Correct answer: Cloud archive tier
Acronis Cloud archive tier offers lower-cost storage optimized for long-term retention of infrequently accessed backup archives.
Question 7: During a disaster recovery failover in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, what is a 'recovery server'?
- A physical server used to restore backups locally
- A cloud VM pre-configured from a backup to become operational during failover (Correct answer)
- The Acronis management server that coordinates recovery tasks
- A secondary Acronis agent installed on the target machine
Correct answer: A cloud VM pre-configured from a backup to become operational during failover
A recovery server in Acronis DR is a cloud-based VM configured from a backup image that becomes active during a failover event.
ACE Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Strategies 3
A company uses the 3-2-1 backup rule.
Which statement correctly describes this rule as implemented in Acronis?