Deck 9: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Question 1

A catastrophe is a suddenly occurring event that has a long-term negative impact on life.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Availability is the main component of the CIA triad that affects business continuity and disaster recovery.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The vulnerability analysis and risk assessment must be performed by the BCP committee.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Work recovery time (WRT) is the difference between RTO and MTD.

Question 5

All levels of RAID provide fault tolerance.

Question 6

Preventive methods are preferable to actions that might be necessary to recover the system after a disruption if the preventive controls are feasible and cost-effective.

Question 7

The BIA should detail any guidelines for handling the press.

Question 8

Although a cold site provides the quickest recovery, it is the most expensive to maintain.

Question 9

When replacement of legacy devices is possible, organizations should take measures to replace them before the disaster occurs.

Question 10

Transaction log backups help organizations to recover to a particular point in time and are most commonly used in backup/restoration environments.

Question 11

Which plan provides instruction on what personnel should do until the functions and systems are restored to full functionality?

A) Disaster recovery plan
B) Continuity plan
C) Business impact analysis
D) Contingency plan

Question 12

What is the first step of BIA development?

A) Identify recovery priorities.
B) Identify resource requirements.
C) Identify critical processes and resources.
D) Identify outage impacts, and estimate downtime.

Question 13

Which term is used for the maximum amount of time that an organization can tolerate a single resource or function being down?

A) RTO
B) MTD
C) MTTR
D) MTBF

Question 14

Which of the following does NOT need to have its criticality level defined to act as an input into the DRP?

A) Business personnel
B) Business processes
C) Business functions
D) Business resources

Question 15

What is the second step of Special Publication (SP) 800-34 Revision 1 (R1) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)?

A) Conduct business impact analysis (BIA).
B) Identify preventive controls.
C) Create recovery strategies.
D) Develop contingency planning policy.

Question 16

What provides monetary protection for expenses and lost earnings?

A) Data backup
B) Insurance
C) Redundant systems
D) RAID

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a main factor that affects the selection of an alternative facility?

A) Geographic location
B) Location's security
C) Location's cost
D) Location's restoration effort

Question 18

Which alternative location is the most difficult to be legally enforced?

A) Cold site
B) Redundant site
C) Tertiary site
D) Reciprocal agreement

Question 19

What is the status of a file if the archive bit is enabled?

A) It will be archived during the next backup.
B) It will be archived during the next restoration.
C) It will be ignored during the next backup.
D) It will be ignored during the next restoration.

Question 20

Which team restores the critical business functions at the alternative facility?

A) Relocation team
B) Recovery team
C) Restoration team
D) Salvage