Availability Controls

Question 1

Fault Tolerance

Answer 1

ability of a system to maintain operations in event of failures or faults of one or more of its components

Question 2

Disaster recovery plan

Answer 2

procedures to restore IT function in case of disaster

Question 3

Cold Site

Answer 3

disaster recovery plan that involves reliance of access to alternative facility that supplies telephone and internet access, no computing equipment

Question 4

Hot Site

Answer 4

DRP option that relies on access to completely operational data center not only prewired but also containing necessary hard and software.

Question 5

recovery point objective

Answer 5

amount of data organization is willing to reenter or potentially lose

Question 6

recovery time objective

Answer 6

time to restore IT system following disaster. Amount of time business will attempt to function without IT system

Question 7

Business continuity plan

Answer 7

procedure to resume all operations, not just IT

Question 8

Incremental Backup

Answer 8

partial backup that only copies data item that have changed since last partial backup. Create set of incremental backup files for results of each day

Question 9

Differential Backup

Answer 9

copies all data changes that have happened since last full backup

Question 10

Archive Backup

Answer 10

copy of database, masterfile, or software that is held indefinitely as a historic record