Key Terms

Question 1

BCP (Business Continuity Plan)

Answer 1

Long-term plan to ensure the continuity of business operations in a disaster event.

Question 2

DR (Disaster Recovery)

Answer 2

Policies, procedures, and tools to recover from a natural, environmental, or man-made disaster.

Question 3

Collusion

Answer 3

An agreement between two or more individuals to subvert the security of a system.

Question 4

COOP (Continuity of Operations Plan)

Answer 4

A plan to maintain operations during a disaster.

Question 5

Disaster

Answer 5

Any disruptive event that interrupts normal system operations.

Question 6

DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan)

Answer 6

Short-term plan to recover from a disruptive event, part of our BCP.

Question 7

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

Answer 7

How long a new or repaired system or component will function on average before failing.

Question 8

MTTR (Mean Time to Repair)

Answer 8

How long it will take to recover a failed system.

Question 9

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks)

Answer 9

Using multiple disk drives to achieve greater data reliability, speed, and fault tolerance.

Question 10

Mirroring

Answer 10

Complete duplication of data to another disk, used by some levels of RAID.

Question 11

Striping

Answer 11

Spreading data written across multiple disks to achieve performance gains, is used by some levels of RAID.

Question 12

Single Point of Failure

Answer 12

is a critical point where a component or network could fail, often with no redundant capability.

Question 13

MTTF (Mean time to failure)

Answer 13

is a measure of how long a piece of equipment is expected to operate reliably before it needs to be replaced.