CCP CCP Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Question 1

What does RTO (Recovery Time Objective) define in a disaster recovery plan?

Accepted Answer

The maximum acceptable downtime before systems must be restored

Answer

RTO is the maximum acceptable length of time that a system can be offline before the outage causes unacceptable business impact.

Question 2

What does RPO (Recovery Point Objective) represent?

Accepted Answer

Maximum tolerable data loss measured in time

Answer

RPO defines the maximum age of data that must be recovered from backup storage for normal operations to resume after a failure.

Question 3

Which type of disaster recovery site is fully equipped and operational, ready to take over immediately?

Accepted Answer

Hot site

Answer

A hot site is a fully operational duplicate of the primary site that can take over immediately with little to no downtime.

Question 4

A cold site in disaster recovery is best described as:

Accepted Answer

A facility with power and connectivity but no pre-installed hardware or data

Answer

A cold site provides only the basic infrastructure (power, HVAC, connectivity) and requires equipment installation and data restoration before use.

Question 5

Which backup strategy involves copying only the files that have changed since the last full backup?

Accepted Answer

Incremental backup

Answer

Incremental backup copies only data changed since the last backup of any type, minimizing storage use but requiring multiple sets for restoration.

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