Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery CND Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11application · medium

   During a major flood, a company's data center is inaccessible. The crisis management team has been activated. The incident response team has confirmed that the flood has not compromised any systems, but the building is unsafe. What is the immediate priority for the crisis management team?

   • ANotify customers about the outage and expected recovery time.
   • BAttempt to salvage equipment from the flooded data center.
   • CBegin restoring systems at the alternate site immediately.
   • DEnsure the safety of all employees and confirm that everyone has evacuated the building.
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2. 12foundation · easy

   Who is typically responsible for making strategic decisions during a crisis?

   • AThe crisis management team
   • BThe external auditors
   • CThe help desk staff
   • DThe backup operators
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4. 13application · medium

   A chemical plant has just experienced a toxic gas leak. The emergency response plan designates the plant manager as the incident commander, the safety officer as the evacuation coordinator, and the public relations manager as the spokesperson. What is the FIRST action the incident commander should take?

   • AActivate the emergency response plan and order an immediate evacuation of affected areas
   • BWait for confirmation from the corporate office before taking any action
   • CBegin a full investigation to determine the cause of the leak
   • DCall the media to inform the public about the leak
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5. 14expert · hard

   A media company's video editing team relies on a high-performance storage array that cannot be replicated to an alternate site in real time due to bandwidth constraints. The company's BIA sets an RPO of 1 hour for the editing team's work. Which backup strategy best meets the RPO while minimizing the impact on the team's workflow?

   • AUse continuous replication despite the bandwidth constraint, accepting network congestion
   • BPerform hourly incremental backups to a local staging server, then replicate the changes to the alternate site every hour
   • CPerform a full backup once per week and rely on the alternate site's previous data
   • DDisable the alternate site and keep all backups on the primary site
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6. 15application · medium

   A financial services firm is implementing its DR plan. The plan requires that the trading platform be recoverable within 30 minutes with no more than 1 minute of data loss. The firm has a primary data center and a secondary site 50 miles away. The implementation team must choose a data replication method. Which method should they implement?

   • ANightly full backups with tape shipment to the secondary site.
   • BHourly incremental backups to a local disk array at the primary site.
   • CSynchronous replication to the secondary site over a dedicated low-latency fiber link.
   • DAsynchronous replication to the secondary site over the public internet.
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