Outcomes addressed in this activity:
Unit Outcomes:
- Describe system resilience and fault tolerance.
- Develop a recovery plan.
- Apply testing and maintenance of a recovery plan.
Course Outcome:
Generalize key issues related to disaster recovery planning and physical security.
Purpose
In this assignment, you will examine how disaster recovery planning serves as a valuable complement to business continuity planning. DRPs ensure that the proper technical controls are in place to keep the business functioning and to restore service after a disruption.
Assignment Instructions
Justify Your Answers
Answer the following 12 questions by selecting the single best answer for each. Using your course materials and/or other credible resources, provide a 50- to 100-word explanation of why you chose your answer for each question. Please cite your sources for your answers from your course materials or other credible resources.
- Your organization is implementing a new file server. You have been asked to implement a disk subsystem that is a failure-resistant disk system (FRDS). Which criterion should this system meet?
- It protects against data loss due to disk drive failure.
- It protects against data loss due to external power failure.
- It protects against loss of access to data due to power supply failure.
- What is the term for RAID 1 implemented with a single hard disk controller?
- disk duplexing
- disk mirroring
- disk striping
- Your company has a backup solution that performs a full backup each Saturday evening and an incremental backup all other evenings. A vital system crashes on Monday morning. How many backups will need to be restored?
- one
- two
- three
- Your organization implements a full/differential backup scheme. A full backup was completed 2 days ago. Yesterday, a differential backup was completed. Which files were backed up yesterday?
- all files in a backup set
- all files in a backup set that were changed or created since the last full backup
- all files in a backup set that were changed or created since the last differential backup
- Which electronic backup solution backs up data in real time but transmits the data to an off-site facility in batches?
- remote journaling
- hierarchical storage management (HSM)
- electronic vaulting
- Your organization is researching alternate computing facilities to ensure that the organization is able to function if the primary facility is destroyed. Which off-site facility is the most expensive to implement?
- hot site
- warm site
- cold site
- During a recent natural disaster, the primary location for your organization was destroyed. To bring the alternate site online, you restored the most critical systems first. Now a new primary site is complete, and you need to ensure that the site is brought online in an orderly fashion. What should you do first?
- Restore the most critical functions to the new primary site.
- Restore the least critical functions to the new primary site.
- Restore all independent functions to the new primary site.
- Which site is usually maintained within the company and requires no contract with an off-site vendor?
- redundant site
- hot site
- warm site
- Which of the following is the most important element that an incident handler should possess?
- integrity
- ability to cope with stress
- presentation skills
- Which of the following is most important when deciding whether to build an alternate facility or to acquire a hot site operated by a third party?
- cost to rebuild information processing facilities
- estimated annual loss expectancy
- location and cost of commercial recovery facilities
- Which of the following documents should be contained in a computer incident response team manual?
- severity criteria
- employee phone directory
- table of all backup files
- Which of the following practices would best ensure the adequacy of a disaster recovery plan?
- regular audits of disaster recovery facilities
- regular reviews of recovery plan information
- regular recovery exercises
Assignment Requirements
Only the title page, in-text citations, and reference page are required to be formatted according to APA standards for this assignment.
