A video production company generates very large project files (50–200 GB each) and needs to archive completed projects for long-term retention. The company has a fast internet connection but wants to minimize the time IT staff spend managing backup media. Which backup storage approach is most appropriate for this need?

Cloud object storage with lifecycle policies to move older projects to cold storage tiers

Magnetic tape cartridges kept in a nearby office

Network attached storage (NAS) with RAID 5 in the same building

External USB hard drives stored in a safe on-site

A regional bank's core transaction system is hosted in a primary data center. The bank's business continuity plan requires that customer transactions continue with no more than 10 minutes of interruption and no more than 5 minutes of data loss. Which approach best supports this requirement?

Keep a second server in the same data center with a daily backup.

Replicate transactions in near-real-time to a standby system in a second data center.

Use a cloud backup service that runs a full backup every hour.

Perform nightly full backups to tape and store them in a bank vault.

A financial services company has a critical database with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. The current backup solution is a nightly full backup with transaction log backups every 15 minutes. The company is planning to move to a new data center and wants to ensure the RPO and RTO can still be met. Which additional component is most essential to include in the disaster recovery plan?

A standby server in the new data center with the database logs shipped continuously

A documented procedure to restore from the nightly full backup and apply all transaction logs

A backup tape rotated off-site every week

A second full backup stored in a different cloud region

A small business owner wants to back up the company's financial data. The owner is concerned about ransomware and wants to ensure that a backup is not affected if the main computer is compromised. Which backup strategy is most effective against ransomware?

Use a second internal hard drive in the same computer

Use a cloud backup service with versioning and multi-factor authentication

Use a network attached storage (NAS) device on the same network without access controls

Use an external hard drive that is always connected to the computer

A hospital's electronic health record system must be restored within two hours of a failure, and the hospital can accept losing at most 15 minutes of patient data. The IT team is designing the backup strategy. Which combination of RPO and RTO best matches these requirements?

RPO of 1 hour and RTO of 1 hour

RPO of 2 hours and RTO of 15 minutes

RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 2 hours

RPO of 24 hours and RTO of 8 hours

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A video production company generates very large project files (50–200 GB each) and needs to archive completed projects for long-term retention. The company has a fast internet connection but wants to minimize the time IT staff spend managing backup media. Which backup storage approach is most appropriate for this need?
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A regional bank's core transaction system is hosted in a primary data center. The bank's business continuity plan requires that customer transactions continue with no more than 10 minutes of interruption and no more than 5 minutes of data loss. Which approach best supports this requirement?
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A financial services company has a critical database with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. The current backup solution is a nightly full backup with transaction log backups every 15 minutes. The company is planning to move to a new data center and wants to ensure the RPO and RTO can still be met. Which additional component is most essential to include in the disaster recovery plan?
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4application · medium
A small business owner wants to back up the company's financial data. The owner is concerned about ransomware and wants to ensure that a backup is not affected if the main computer is compromised. Which backup strategy is most effective against ransomware?
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5application · medium
A hospital's electronic health record system must be restored within two hours of a failure, and the hospital can accept losing at most 15 minutes of patient data. The IT team is designing the backup strategy. Which combination of RPO and RTO best matches these requirements?
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