A hospital's electronic health record (EHR) system has an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. The system runs 24/7 with a high transaction rate. The backup team proposes: full backup nightly at 1 AM, differential every 4 hours, and transaction log backup every 15 minutes. The storage team warns that the current backup storage cannot keep up with the log backup frequency. Which adjustment best balances RPO, RTO, and storage capacity?

Replace the nightly full with a weekly full and keep the log backup at 15 minutes

Reduce the log backup frequency to every 30 minutes

Keep the log backup at 15 minutes but move older log backups to a slower, cheaper storage tier

Increase the log backup frequency to every 5 minutes to reduce data loss

A company runs a virtualized environment with 50 VMs. They need to back up the VMs with minimal impact on production performance during business hours. They also want to be able to restore a single file from a VM quickly. Which backup method is most appropriate?

Agent-based backups installed inside each VM.

Hypervisor-level snapshots with changed-block tracking and file-level restore capability.

Using tape backups of the VM's virtual disks.

Backing up each VM by copying its VHDX files while the VM is running.

A company backs up sensitive customer data to both on-premises disk and a cloud storage service. The security team is concerned about unauthorized access to backup data. Which combination of measures best protects the backup data?

Use only strong passwords on backup accounts

Encrypt backups at rest and in transit, and restrict access to backup storage with role-based access control

Store backups only on-premises to avoid cloud security risks

Rely on the cloud provider's default security settings

A company's backup retention policy currently stores: daily fulls for 14 days, weekly fulls for 8 weeks, and monthly fulls for 24 months. The company is audited and must retain financial records for 7 years. The storage budget is fixed. Which change best meets the new retention requirement without exceeding the budget?

Reduce daily fulls to 7 days and weekly fulls to 4 weeks to free space for monthly fulls

Add yearly full backups retained for 7 years

Increase monthly fulls to 84 months

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16expert · hard
A hospital's electronic health record (EHR) system has an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. The system runs 24/7 with a high transaction rate. The backup team proposes: full backup nightly at 1 AM, differential every 4 hours, and transaction log backup every 15 minutes. The storage team warns that the current backup storage cannot keep up with the log backup frequency. Which adjustment best balances RPO, RTO, and storage capacity?
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17application · medium
A company runs a virtualized environment with 50 VMs. They need to back up the VMs with minimal impact on production performance during business hours. They also want to be able to restore a single file from a VM quickly. Which backup method is most appropriate?
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18foundation · easy
Which backup method is specifically designed to capture the state of a virtual machine, including its operating system, applications, and data, to enable rapid restoration of the entire VM?
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19application · medium
A company backs up sensitive customer data to both on-premises disk and a cloud storage service. The security team is concerned about unauthorized access to backup data. Which combination of measures best protects the backup data?
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20expert · hard
A company's backup retention policy currently stores: daily fulls for 14 days, weekly fulls for 8 weeks, and monthly fulls for 24 months. The company is audited and must retain financial records for 7 years. The storage budget is fixed. Which change best meets the new retention requirement without exceeding the budget?
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A company runs a virtualized environment with 50 VMs. They need to back up the VMs with minimal impact on production performance during business hours. They also want to be able to restore a single file from a VM quickly. Which backup method is most appropriate?

Which backup method is specifically designed to capture the state of a virtual machine, including its operating system, applications, and data, to enable rapid restoration of the entire VM?

A company backs up sensitive customer data to both on-premises disk and a cloud storage service. The security team is concerned about unauthorized access to backup data. Which combination of measures best protects the backup data?

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