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Technology Recovery Procedures Flashcards

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  1. When prioritizing system recovery during a disaster, which factor should be weighted most heavily?

    Answer: Criticality to core business functions

    Recovery prioritization should be driven by criticality to core business operations, ensuring the most essential systems are restored first to minimize business impact.

  2. What is a technology recovery 'dependency map' used for?

    Answer: Identifying interconnections between systems so recovery is sequenced correctly

    A dependency map illustrates how systems rely on each other, enabling recovery teams to restore systems in the correct order to avoid cascading failures.

  3. Which cloud deployment model is most commonly used to provide rapid scalability during a disaster recovery activation?

    Answer: Public cloud (IaaS)

    Public cloud IaaS allows organizations to rapidly provision compute and storage resources on demand during DR activation without capital investment in standby hardware.

  4. A company discovers that its DR backups are stored in the same building as the primary data center. What risk does this create?

    Answer: The same physical disaster could destroy both production data and backups simultaneously

    Co-locating backups with the primary data center means a fire, flood, or physical disaster at that location could eliminate both production data and all recovery copies.

  5. In database recovery, what is the purpose of transaction logs?

    Answer: To record all database changes, enabling point-in-time recovery

    Transaction logs record every change made to a database, allowing recovery teams to replay transactions and restore the database to any specific point in time.

  6. What is the purpose of a 'recovery time actual' (RTA) measurement?

    Answer: To measure how long recovery actually took during a test or real event

    RTA documents the actual time taken to recover systems during a test or real disaster, which is then compared against the RTO to identify gaps.

  7. Which approach best supports achieving a near-zero RPO for a critical database?

    Answer: Synchronous replication to a remote site

    Synchronous replication writes data to both the primary and remote replica simultaneously, ensuring near-zero data loss if the primary site fails.