Module 41 - Business Continuity - Q&A

Question 1

All of the following are considered business continuity activities, except.
A. Evacuating a building during a fire
B. Processing only critical business transactions
C. Manually inventorying parts in a warehouse in the event of a power loss
D. Hand-writing business orders in the event of a systems failure

Answer 1

A. Evacuating a building during a fire is part of disaster response and recovery, whereas the other choices can all be conceivably performed as part of keeping business operations going.

Question 2

Which of the following is considered one of the first activities performed during the BCP process?
A. Disaster response
B. Business impact analysis
C. Server clustering configuration
D. Critical data backup

Answer 2

B. A business impact analysis is one of the first activities performed during the BCP process. The other activities are also important but may be performed at various other times during the process.

Question 3

Which of the following activities is performed as part of the BIA process?
A. Identify redundant equipment
B. Identify emergency evacuation routes
C. Identify roles and key responsibilities
D. Identify critical systems and components

Answer 3

D. Identifying critical systems and components is part of the BIA process, whereas all of the other choices are performed during other parts of the BCP process.

Question 4

Which of the following problems does redundancy normally help to solve?
A. Poorly trained disaster response team members
B. Inadequate bandwidth
C. Single points of failure
D. Data loss

Answer 4

C. Redundancy typically solves issues related to single points of failure. The other issues are normally resolved using other solutions

Question 5

Which two potential recovery and continuity issues are solved through succession planning? (Choose two.)
A. Alternate business processes
B. Lack of disaster recovery training
C. Alternate leadership positions
D. Critical disaster team member alternate positions

Answer 5

C, D. Alternate leadership positions and critical disaster team member alternate positions are personnel issues that are resolved through effective succession planning as part of BCP.

Question 6

\_\_\_\_ involves both near- and long-term planning for the computing infrastructure, directly affecting system and equipment-related contingencies.
A. Succession planning
B. IT contingency planning
C. Fault-tolerance
D. Clustering

Answer 6

B. IT contingency planning involves both near- and long-term planning for the computing infrastructure, directly affecting system and equipment-related contingencies.

Question 7

You are trying to determine the appropriate level of high availability for a server. The server must be available on a constant basis, and downtime in a given year cannot exceed 10 minutes. Which of the following reflects the level of availability you require?
A. 99.999 percent availability
B. 90 percent availability
C. 99.9 percent availability
D. 99.99 percent availability

Answer 7

A. 99.999 percent availability is required to maintain a downtime of less than 10 minutes per year. All other choices would result in a downtime greater than 10 minutes per year.

Question 8

Which of the following clustering configurations involves a group of servers configured to service a request instantly and automatically if one of the members of the cluster fails?
A. Passive-active
B. Passive-passive
C. Active-passive
D. Active-active

Answer 8

D. An active-active cluster configuration will instantly and automatically service a request if one of the members of a server cluster fails.

Question 9

All of the following are valid reasons to test and exercise BCP and disaster recovery plans, except.
A. To train and familiarize personnel with the BCP and DR plans
B. To ensure that equipment and supplies are in place, accessible, and functional in the event a real disaster occurs
C. To create an actual incident the response team must recover from, in order to test the team’s effectiveness
D. To discover any issues or problems the planning process did not take into account

Answer 9

C. Creating a real incident in order to test the effectiveness of the response team may actually interrupt the business operations or seriously impact its ability to function.

Question 10

Which of the following types of BCP tests may occur in the operational areas of the business, and is designed to familiarize the response team with the response steps involved, but usually involves only simulated responses?
A. Walkthrough exercise
B. Full exercise
C. Documentation review
D. Parallel testing

Answer 10

A. A walkthrough exercise may occur in the operational areas of the business and is designed to familiarize the response team with the response steps involved, but it usually involves only simulated responses.