What is the main objective of a business continuity plan (BCP)?

To prevent any disruption from occurring

To restore IT systems from backups as quickly as possible

To transfer all business risks to insurance providers

To maintain critical business functions during and after a disruption

A company's disaster recovery plan includes a failover to a secondary site that is activated only when the primary site is declared down. The failover process takes four hours to bring systems online. The business continuity plan states that critical business functions must resume within two hours of a disruption. Which of the following is the best way to reconcile this conflict?

Implement a warm standby site that can be activated in under two hours, even at higher cost.

Use the secondary site only for non-critical applications and keep critical functions manual.

Change the business continuity plan to accept a four-hour recovery time.

Conduct more frequent backups to reduce data loss, but keep the four-hour failover.

Which of the following is classified as a human-caused disaster rather than a natural disaster?

An earthquake that disrupts the data center's power supply

A ransomware attack that encrypts critical servers

A hurricane that forces the office to close for a week

A flood that damages the ground-floor server room

A manufacturing plant is located in a flood-prone area. The IT manager wants to reduce the risk of data loss if the server room floods. Which preventive control is most effective?

Store encrypted backups at a geographically separate site

Conduct monthly disaster recovery drills

Schedule weekly full backups on a local NAS

Install surge protectors on all server power supplies

A data center wants to detect a cooling system failure before servers overheat and shut down. Which control should be implemented?

A disaster recovery plan with a four-hour RTO

A fire suppression system in the server room

Temperature sensors with automated alerts to the operations team

Redundant cooling units that activate automatically

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A company's disaster recovery plan includes a failover to a secondary site that is activated only when the primary site is declared down. The failover process takes four hours to bring systems online. The business continuity plan states that critical business functions must resume within two hours of a disruption. Which of the following is the best way to reconcile this conflict?
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A manufacturing plant is located in a flood-prone area. The IT manager wants to reduce the risk of data loss if the server room floods. Which preventive control is most effective?
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A data center wants to detect a cooling system failure before servers overheat and shut down. Which control should be implemented?
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