ACE Bare Metal Recovery & System Restore 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the primary purpose of Acronis Universal Restore?
- To restore backups directly to cloud object storage
- To recover a system to dissimilar hardware by injecting appropriate drivers (Correct answer)
- To compress backup images for faster bare metal recovery
- To synchronize recovery schedules across multiple Acronis agents
Correct answer: To recover a system to dissimilar hardware by injecting appropriate drivers
Acronis Universal Restore enables restoring a system to hardware that differs from the original by detecting and injecting the necessary drivers during the recovery process.
Question 2: Which types of bootable media does Acronis Bootable Media Builder support for bare metal recovery?
- DOS-based and FreeBSD-based media only
- UEFI firmware recovery images only
- WinPE-based and Linux-based bootable media (Correct answer)
- ISO 9660 read-only optical disc images only
Correct answer: WinPE-based and Linux-based bootable media
Acronis Bootable Media Builder creates WinPE-based or Linux-based rescue media that can boot outside the OS to perform bare metal recovery operations.
Question 3: During an Acronis bare metal restore, what must be configured when the target disk has a different partition layout than the source?
- The backup encryption passphrase must be re-entered before mapping begins
- Manual partition mapping or automatic disk layout adjustment must be performed (Correct answer)
- A new Acronis agent must be pre-installed on the target machine
- The network adapter driver must be replaced prior to initiating the restore
Correct answer: Manual partition mapping or automatic disk layout adjustment must be performed
When the target disk differs in size or partition structure, Acronis requires the administrator to configure partition mapping or select automatic disk layout adjustment during recovery.
Question 4: Which Acronis backup type enables recovery of an entire system including OS, applications, and all data in a single restore operation?
- File-level archive restore
- Disk/volume image restore (Correct answer)
- Application-aware SQL Server restore
- Cloud sync folder restore
Correct answer: Disk/volume image restore
Disk/volume image restore recovers the complete system state, including OS, applications, settings, and data, from a sector-level backup image in one operation.
Question 5: What is Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (ASRM) and what problem does it solve?
- A cloud service that schedules recovery tasks remotely
- A bootable component in the MBR that enables recovery at startup without external media (Correct answer)
- A monitoring daemon that validates backup health on a schedule
- An API endpoint for automating recovery workflow integrations
Correct answer: A bootable component in the MBR that enables recovery at startup without external media
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager installs a bootable recovery environment in the MBR or system partition, allowing recovery mode to be launched at startup without a separate USB drive or disc.
Question 6: Which Acronis recovery option allows an administrator to extract specific files from a full disk-level backup without restoring the entire image?
- Bare metal recovery
- Universal Restore with driver injection
- Granular recovery (Correct answer)
- Instant Restore (Run VM from backup)
Correct answer: Granular recovery
Granular recovery allows administrators to browse a disk-level backup and restore only selected files or folders rather than the entire disk image.
Question 7: When performing bare metal recovery using Acronis bootable media, which protocol is typically used to connect to a remote SMB backup location?
- FTP passive mode
- SMB/CIFS network share or Acronis agent connection (Correct answer)
- Telnet file transfer
- SFTP with public key authentication only
Correct answer: SMB/CIFS network share or Acronis agent connection
Acronis bootable media (both WinPE and Linux) can access remote backup locations via SMB/CIFS network shares or by connecting directly to an Acronis Management Server or Storage Node.
ACE Bare Metal Recovery & System Restore 1
What is the primary purpose of Acronis Universal Restore?