ACE Bare Metal Recovery & System Restore 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: When restoring a backup from a BIOS/MBR system to a UEFI/GPT target using Acronis, what conversion is typically required during the restore process?
- The backup must be re-created on the target hardware before restoration begins
- The disk partition style must be converted from MBR to GPT during or after restore (Correct answer)
- Only the boot sector needs to be manually rebuilt post-recovery using bootrec.exe
- Universal Restore handles all BIOS-to-UEFI conversions silently without user input
Correct answer: The disk partition style must be converted from MBR to GPT during or after restore
Restoring from a BIOS/MBR system to a UEFI system requires converting the partition table from MBR to GPT, which Acronis facilitates during disk layout configuration in the restore wizard.
Question 2: What is the recommended validation step immediately after completing a bare metal recovery with Acronis?
- Immediately run a new full backup of the newly restored system
- Verify the restored system boots successfully and critical applications are functional (Correct answer)
- Re-register the Acronis agent license on the restored machine
- Delete the source backup image to reclaim storage after confirming restore completed
Correct answer: Verify the restored system boots successfully and critical applications are functional
After bare metal recovery, the administrator should confirm the system boots properly and verify that key applications and services function correctly to validate a successful restore.
Question 3: In Acronis Cyber Protect, what does Recovery Time Objective (RTO) measure in the context of disaster recovery planning?
- The time required to complete a full backup of a protected system
- The maximum acceptable duration to restore a system to operational status after failure (Correct answer)
- The maximum amount of data that can be lost measured in time (backup frequency)
- The interval between scheduled backup verification runs
Correct answer: The maximum acceptable duration to restore a system to operational status after failure
RTO defines the maximum acceptable time to restore systems and resume business operations after an outage, and bare metal recovery capabilities directly impact achieving RTO goals.
Question 4: Which Acronis feature enables near-instant recovery by running a virtual machine directly from a backup image without performing a full restoration first?
- Acronis Instant Restore (Run VM from backup) (Correct answer)
- Acronis Universal Restore with driver injection
- Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
- Acronis PXE Server network boot
Correct answer: Acronis Instant Restore (Run VM from backup)
Acronis Instant Restore (Run VM from backup) starts a virtual machine directly from the backup image, providing immediate availability while a background migration to permanent storage completes.
Question 5: During Acronis bare metal recovery, if the target hard drive is larger than the source drive, what option does Acronis provide?
- The restoration fails and requires source and target drives to be identical in size
- Acronis offers to proportionally resize partitions to fill the larger disk or retain original sizes (Correct answer)
- Only the used sectors are restored and the remaining capacity becomes permanently inaccessible
- A partition alignment error occurs that must be corrected manually after recovery
Correct answer: Acronis offers to proportionally resize partitions to fill the larger disk or retain original sizes
When the target disk is larger, Acronis allows proportional resizing of partitions to utilize all available space, or restoring at original sizes while leaving the remaining disk space unallocated.
Question 6: What Acronis technology allows target machines to load the Acronis recovery environment over the network without any physical bootable media?
- Acronis PXE Server (Correct answer)
- Acronis File Sync and Share
- Acronis Cloud Connect gateway
- Acronis Disk Director partition manager
Correct answer: Acronis PXE Server
Acronis PXE Server enables network booting using the PXE/TFTP protocol, allowing machines to load the Acronis WinPE or Linux recovery environment directly from the network.
Question 7: Which Acronis backup format is best suited for bare metal recovery because it captures every sector of a disk including the OS and partition structure?
- File-level archive backup (.afb format)
- Disk/partition image backup (.tibx or .tib format) (Correct answer)
- Application-aware Exchange mailbox backup
- SQL Server transaction log backup
Correct answer: Disk/partition image backup (.tibx or .tib format)
Disk/partition image backups capture data at the sector level, preserving the complete disk including OS, boot records, partition tables, and all data, making them ideal for bare metal recovery.
ACE Bare Metal Recovery & System Restore 2
When restoring a backup from a BIOS/MBR system to a UEFI/GPT target using Acronis, what conversion is typically required during the restore process?