M842: Business Continuity & DR Flashcards
Which of the following is a plan established by a company/organization to enable fast recovery and continuous operation after a disruption to the business?
A. Business Continuity
B. Disaster Recovery
C. Emergency Response
D. Failover
A. Business Continuity
Explanation: A Business Continuity Plan includes Disaster Recovery and is an overall plan for the business that details processes and procedures for continuous operation during and after a disruption occurs. In support of business continuity the IT Infrastructure should include redundancy, failover mechanisms, hot sites and cold sites and other DR related functions.
The Archiving and backing up of important data such as network device configurations can be considered as part of a Disaster Recovery plan and overall Business Continuity.
A. True
B. False
A. True
Explanation: Anything related to system restoration, system archiving, or system redundancy should be included in a Disaster Recovery plan.
An alternate location that is up, running, and ready for users work from in the time of a disaster is called a ____________.
A. DR site
B. Hot site
C. Failover site
D. Cold site
B. Hot site
Explanation: A Hot site has everything already up and running that is required for users to start working. Hot sites can be used immediately without having to configure, setup, or deploy any equipment or services. Cold sites on the other hand are locations that still require equipment to be powered on configured before it is ready to accept users.
A DR Data center is an off-site data center in a separate geographic location where network servers and services can be brought online in the case of a disaster or failure at the main data center location.
A. True
B. False
B. True
Explanation: DR Data Centers (sometimes called DR sites) are locations where primary services can be restored and run from in the case of a failure at the main data center.
