Chapter 8 - DR And BC

Question 0

Business continuity

Answer 0

If systems fail, these internal processes must take place in order to recover as a company

Question 1

Disaster recovery

Answer 1

It based, if systems fail these systems take over

Question 2

Business continuity management

Answer 2

DR + BC

Question 3

BC coordinator

Answer 3

Someone who oversees the bcp commuter, which is the team

Question 4

Bcp policy

Answer 4

Supplies the framework for the bcp project

Question 5

SWOT analysis

Answer 5

Strengths
Weakness
Opportunities
Threats

Analyze a team effectiveness

Question 6

MTD and MPTD

Answer 6

Maximum tolerable downtime

Maximum period time disruption

Question 7

RTO

Answer 7

Recovery time objective- this is the time it took to actually recover a system

Question 8

Work recovery time

Answer 8

This is the time remaining of the overall MTD value assigned

Question 9

Recovery point objective

Answer 9

This is the max rollback time acceptable

Question 10

Recovery strategy stage

Answer 10

Predefined activities to implement and carry out in a disaster

Question 11

Non Disaster
Disaster
Catastrophe

Answer 11

Non disaster is an isolated malfunction like a water leak
Disaster is and event that takes service or a building down for 24 hours or more
Catastrophe is when the facility is lost all together

Question 12

Mean time between failures MTBF

Mean time to repair MTTR

Answer 12

MTBF - Estimated lifetime of equipment based on a vendor

MTTR - estimated time to repair once broken based on vendor

Question 13

Hot site

Answer 13

A standby site with all the right hardware and software awaiting a backup restore

Question 14

Warm site

Answer 14

Has connectivity awaiting hardware

Question 15

Reciprocal agreement

Answer 15

We agree to use each other’s environment in a disaster.

Question 16

Mutual aid agreement

Answer 16

Multiple companies agreeing to help each other, gets very legal and messy

Question 17

Redundant site

Answer 17

Company owned hot site .. Everything is replicated real time and already running

Question 18

Rolling hot site

Answer 18

Hot site in a trailer with power and telecom

Question 19

Multiple processing centers

Answer 19

When multiple datacenter and hooked together worldwide to offer service failover instantly

Question 20

Software escrow

Answer 20

A safety net for outsourced software development

Question 21

Executive succession planning

Answer 21

If the cfo died .. Who takes the place?

Question 22

Disk duplexing

Answer 22

Means multiple controllers

Question 23

Disk shadowing

Answer 23

Means that all components of the disk hardware are replicated including controller and spindle

Question 24

Electronic vaulting

Answer 24

Rsync or robocopy are examples or this .. They move changed data .

Question 25

Remote journaling

Answer 25

Transaction log shipping is an example of this

Question 26

Tape vaulting

Answer 26

Pushing data changes to a tape

Question 27

Asynchronous vs synchronous replication

Answer 27

Sync is real time async is not

Question 28

HA

Answer 28

This is synchronous replication and SLA

Question 29

Business interruption insurance

Answer 29

Disaster strike and review stream will continue as long as it’s covered

Question 30

Restoration team

Answer 30

Responsible for setting up the alternate site

Question 31

Salvage team

Answer 31

Responses in the old facility trying to get it back online

Question 32

Damage assessment

Answer 32

Team is responsible for the wellness of the teams, the time estimated of recovery and the coordination of the salvage team

Question 33

Recovery phase

Answer 33

This is the period between disaster and restored

Question 34

What defines a goal?

Answer 34

Responsibility
Authority
Priorities
Implementation 
Testing