ATP Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity 2

Question 1

A company's RTO is 4 hours and RPO is 1 hour. Which recovery strategy best satisfies both requirements?

Accepted Answer

Warm site with hourly incremental backups

Answer

A warm site with hourly incremental backups meets a 4-hour RTO (site can be activated within hours) and 1-hour RPO (maximum 1 hour of data loss).

Question 2

During a BCP tabletop exercise, a team discovers that a critical vendor cannot meet their stated SLA during a regional disaster. What is the BEST immediate action?

Accepted Answer

Document the gap and update the BCP with contingency vendor options

Answer

Tabletop exercises are meant to uncover gaps; the finding should be documented and the BCP updated with alternative vendor contingencies.

Question 3

What does the term 'failback' refer to in disaster recovery?

Accepted Answer

Restoring operations to the primary site after it is recovered

Answer

Failback is the process of returning production operations from the DR site back to the original primary site once it is restored.

Question 4

Which metric measures the probability that a system will be operational at any given point in time?

Accepted Answer

Availability percentage

Answer

Availability (often expressed as a percentage like 99.9%) measures the proportion of time a system is operational and accessible.

Question 5

A financial firm requires that no more than 15 minutes of transaction data can be lost in any disaster scenario. This requirement defines which DR metric?

Accepted Answer

RPO

Answer

RPO (Recovery Point Objective) defines the maximum tolerable amount of data loss measured in time, in this case 15 minutes.

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ATP Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity 2