Chapter 18– Disaster Recovery Planning

Question 1

1. What is the end goal of disaster recovery planning?

Restoring normal business activity

Answer 1

Restoring normal business activity

Question 2

2. Which is one of the following is an example of a man-made disaster?
   Power outage

Answer 2

Power outage

Question 3

3. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approximately what percentage of U.S states is rated with at least a moderate risk of seismic activity?
   80 percent

Answer 3

80 percent

Question 4

4. Which one of the following disaster types is not usually covered by standard business or homeowner’s insurance?
   Flood

Answer 4

Flood

Question 5

5. Which one of the following controls provides fault tolerance for storage devices?
   RAID

Answer 5

RAID

Question 6

6. Which of the following storage locations provides a good option when the organization does not know where it will be when it tries to recover operations?
   Cloud computing

Answer 6

Cloud computing

Question 7

7. What does the term “100-year flood plain” mean to emergency preparedness officials?
   The odds of a flood at this level are 1 in 100 in any given year.

Answer 7

The odds of a flood at this level are 1 in 100 in any given year.

Question 8

8. In which one of the following database recovery techniques is an exact, up-to-date copy of the database maintained at an alternative location?
   Remote mirroring

Answer 8

Remote mirroring

Question 9

9. What disaster recovery principle best protects your organization against hardware failure?
   Redundancy

Answer 9

Redundancy

Question 10

10. What business continuity planning technique can help you prepare the business unit prioritization task of disaster recovery planning?
    Business impact assessment

Answer 10

Business impact assessment