Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Flashcards
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What is a cold site in disaster recovery?
Answer: An empty facility with basic infrastructure but no equipment
A cold site provides basic infrastructure (power, connectivity) but requires equipment and systems to be installed before operations can resume.
Which term describes the process of returning to normal operations from a DR site?
Answer: Failback
Failback is the process of returning operations from the disaster recovery site back to the primary site once it has been restored.
What does MTTR stand for in availability planning?
Answer: Mean Time To Repair
MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) is the average time required to repair a failed system or component.
Which of the following is the MOST important outcome of a disaster recovery test?
Answer: Documenting lessons learned and improvements needed
Documenting lessons learned is critical because it captures improvements needed to strengthen the DR plan for future real incidents.
What does a warm site offer that a cold site does not?
Answer: Pre-installed equipment and connectivity but not live data
A warm site has pre-installed equipment and network connectivity but requires data restoration before operations can fully resume.
What does Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) measure?
Answer: The average time between system failures
MTBF measures the average time between failures for a system or component and is used to assess overall reliability.