Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Question 1

Steps in Disaster Recovery (5)

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Answer 1

1- Assess the Risk
2- Identify Mission-critical applications and Data
3- Develop a plan
4- Determine involved Personnel Responsibilities
5- Test the plan

Question 2

Types of Backups (3)

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Answer 2

1- full backup
2- incremental
3- differential

Question 3

Define Full backup

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Answer 3

An exact copy of the entire database

-takes the longest time

Question 4

Define Incremental backup

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Answer 4

Copies only the data items that have changed since last backup.

• a type of partial backup
• takes the shortest time

Question 5

Define Differential backup

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Answer 5

Copies all changes made since the last full backup

-takes the middle time

Question 6

Disaster Recovery
Types of Offsite Locations (3)

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Answer 6

1- Hot site
2- Warm site
3- Cold site

Question 7

Disaster Recovery
Define Hot site

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Answer 7

Off-site location equipped to take over the data processing. Backup copies of data maintained at location or nearby facility.
-timing: few hours

Question 8

Disaster Recovery
Define Warm Site

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Answer 8

facility that is already stocked with all hardware needed to create reasonable facsimile of primary data center.
-timing: half to 1 day

Question 9

Disaster Recovery
Define Cold Site

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Answer 9

Off-site location that has the electrical connections and other physical requirements for data processing, but no actual equipment.
-timing: 1 - 3 days