Info Systems: Disaster Recovery And Business Continuity

Question 1

Disaster Recovery

Answer 1

Entity’s plans for continuing operations in the event of the destruction of program and data files as well as processing capability

Question 2

Steps in Disaster recovery

Answer 2

1) Assess the risks
2) Identify mission- critical applications and data
3) Develop a plan
4) Test the disaster recovery plan

Question 3

Hot Site- Few Hours

Answer 3

location that is equipped with the necessary hardware and possibly software. Ready o go ! Equipped to take over the company’s data processing.

Question 4

Incremental Backup

Answer 4

backup involves copying only the data items that have changed since the last backup

Question 5

Cold Site -1-3 days

Answer 5

An off site location but has not been stocked with equipment. has electricity etc. We have to arrange to bring in equipment.

Question 6

Full backup

Answer 6

is an exact copy of the entire database. they are also time consuming

Question 7

Differential Backup

Answer 7

all changes made since the last full backup

Question 8

Warm Site

Answer 8

Compromise of a half and a full day.
facility that is already stocked with all the hardware that it takes to create a reasonable facsmile of the primary data center