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  1. Which Acronis recovery option migrates a backed-up VMware VM to a Hyper-V environment during restore?

    Answer: V2V (cross-hypervisor) recovery

    Acronis V2V recovery converts the VMware backup into a Hyper-V-compatible format during the restore process, enabling cross-hypervisor portability.

  2. Acronis Cyber Protect's Active Protection feature in a virtualized environment is primarily designed to defend against which threat?

    Answer: Ransomware encrypting files on VMs in real time

    Active Protection monitors file system activity inside guest VMs to detect and block ransomware encryption patterns in real time.

  3. When using Acronis replication for VMware VMs, what is the key difference between replication and backup?

    Answer: Replication creates a ready-to-run VM copy at the target site; backup stores archive data requiring restore before use

    VM replication produces a powered-off but immediately bootable VM at the DR site, while a backup requires a restore step before the VM can run.

  4. What is the effect of enabling deduplication on Acronis Storage Node for VM backups in a large VMware environment?

    Answer: It reduces backup storage consumption by eliminating redundant data blocks across multiple VM backups

    Deduplication on Acronis Storage Node identifies and stores identical data blocks only once, substantially reducing total storage used when backing up many similar VMs.

  5. An Acronis backup of a VMware VM fails with 'quiescing failed.' Which action should be taken first?

    Answer: Verify that VMware Tools is installed and running inside the guest VM

    VMware Tools provides the quiescing mechanism inside the guest; if it is missing or stopped, snapshot quiescing will fail.

  6. Which Acronis feature allows a recovered VMware VM to automatically re-join an Active Directory domain after restore to a different hostname?

    Answer: SID conflict resolution during restore

    Acronis provides SID conflict resolution and hostname injection during restore to help a recovered VM rejoin AD without duplicate SID issues.

  7. In Acronis Cyber Protect, what is the role of the 'Backup Validation' option for VM backups?

    Answer: It tests the backup by performing a checksum verification of archive data to confirm recoverability

    Backup validation reads the backup archive and verifies its checksums to confirm the data is intact and the backup is recoverable.