A company's backup policy states that backups are taken every 6 hours. The company's RPO is 4 hours. During a recent incident, the latest backup was 5 hours old when the system failed. What is the most accurate assessment of this situation?

The RPO was met because the backup was taken within the last 6 hours

The backup policy is correct, and the incident is unrelated to RPO

The RTO was violated because the backup was too old

The RPO was violated because 5 hours of data were lost

Which statement best describes the purpose of a disaster recovery plan in a cloud environment?

To ensure that critical IT systems and services can be restored and resumed within a defined time after a disruptive event.

To provide a secondary location for storing backup copies of data.

To prevent all security breaches from occurring in the cloud.

To automatically scale cloud resources based on demand.

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Domain 3Objective 5

Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies CSE Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Data Protection and Encryption in the Cloud domain, which makes up ~12% of our current practice bank.

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10 Concepts in This Objective

Define backup and disaster recovery
Identify backup types
Describe backup storage options
Explain recovery point objective (RPO)
Explain recovery time objective (RTO)
Design backup strategies
Design disaster recovery strategies
Implement backup automation
Test backup and recovery
Ensure data integrity and security

Questions 6–10

6foundation · easy
Which objective defines the maximum acceptable downtime after a disaster?
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7foundation · easy
Which multi-site disaster recovery approach involves running the workload in two active regions simultaneously, with traffic load-balanced between them?
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8application · medium
A company's backup policy states that backups are taken every 6 hours. The company's RPO is 4 hours. During a recent incident, the latest backup was 5 hours old when the system failed. What is the most accurate assessment of this situation?
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9application · medium
A company needs to back up 5 TB of data with an RPO of 12 hours and an RTO of 24 hours. The backup storage must be cost-effective. Which storage tier should be used for the backups?
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10foundation · easy
Which statement best describes the purpose of a disaster recovery plan in a cloud environment?
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Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies CSE Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

Which objective defines the maximum acceptable downtime after a disaster?

Which multi-site disaster recovery approach involves running the workload in two active regions simultaneously, with traffic load-balanced between them?

A company's backup policy states that backups are taken every 6 hours. The company's RPO is 4 hours. During a recent incident, the latest backup was 5 hours old when the system failed. What is the most accurate assessment of this situation?

A company needs to back up 5 TB of data with an RPO of 12 hours and an RTO of 24 hours. The backup storage must be cost-effective. Which storage tier should be used for the backups?

Which statement best describes the purpose of a disaster recovery plan in a cloud environment?

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