3.2 Compare and contrast business continuity and disaster recovery concepts.

Question 1

Cold site

Answer 1

• No hardware - empty building
• No data - bring it with you
• No people - bus in your team

Question 2

Warm site

Answer 2

• Somewhere between cold and hot
• Big room with rack space
• Hardware is ready and waiting

Question 3

Hot site

Answer 3

• An exact replica
• Stocked with hardware
• Applications and software are constantly updated
• Flip a switch and everything moves

Question 4

File backups

Answer 4

• The archive attribute

Question 5

Full - Everything

Answer 5

All selected data

Question 6

Incremental

Answer 6

New files and files modified since the last backup

A restoration requires the full back and all of the incremental backups

Question 7

Differential

Answer 7

All files changed since the last full backup

A restoration requires the full back and the last differential backup

Question 8

Recovery

Answer 8

Mean time to restore (MTTR )- Mean time to repair

Mean time between failures (MTBF) - Predict the time between failures

Recovery may have a predefined

Question 9

Snapshots

Answer 9

Capture the current configuration and data
Preserve the complete state of a device, or just the configuration
• Rollback to known configuration - Don’t modify the data, but use a previous configuration

• Live boot media