Which metric directly influences how frequently backups must be scheduled?

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

Annualized Rate of Occurrence (ARO)

A healthcare organization must retain patient records for 7 years per regulation. They currently keep daily full backups for 1 year and monthly full backups for 5 years. The storage cost is rising. Which retention strategy maintains compliance while reducing storage consumption?

Store all backups on tape and keep them indefinitely without a defined schedule.

Keep daily fulls for 30 days, weekly fulls for 1 year, and monthly fulls for 7 years.

Keep only the most recent full backup and delete all older backups after 1 year.

Keep daily incrementals for 7 years and delete all full backups after 1 year.

An online retailer has a database with a high change rate during the day. The RPO is 30 minutes and the RTO is 2 hours. They currently perform a full backup every night and transaction log backups every 30 minutes. The storage team complains that the log backups are consuming too much space. Which change would reduce log backup storage consumption while still meeting the RPO?

Reduce the frequency of log backups to every hour.

Compress the transaction log backups and retain fewer log backups by performing more frequent full backups.

Switch to differential backups every 30 minutes.

Increase the frequency of full backups to every 6 hours.

A small business has a single server hosting their accounting database. They have no backups. The owner asks what the minimum they should do to protect against a hard drive failure. Which recommendation is the most appropriate?

Enable the server's built-in system restore points.

Perform regular backups to an external drive and store it offsite.

Set up RAID 1 mirroring on the server.

Purchase a second server and replicate data in real time.

A financial services firm runs a critical database that changes continuously during business hours. The RPO is 15 minutes and the RTO is 4 hours. The backup team currently performs a full backup every Sunday night and incremental backups every night at 11 PM. Which change best meets the RPO while keeping the backup window and storage impact reasonable?

Perform a full backup every night at 11 PM.

Switch to differential backups every night at 11 PM.

Increase the frequency of incremental backups to every 6 hours.

Keep the full backup on Sunday and add transaction log backups every 15 minutes.

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Data Backup Strategies EDRP Practice Questions (Page 7)

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Questions 31–35

31foundation · easy
Which metric directly influences how frequently backups must be scheduled?
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32application · medium
A healthcare organization must retain patient records for 7 years per regulation. They currently keep daily full backups for 1 year and monthly full backups for 5 years. The storage cost is rising. Which retention strategy maintains compliance while reducing storage consumption?
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33expert · hard
An online retailer has a database with a high change rate during the day. The RPO is 30 minutes and the RTO is 2 hours. They currently perform a full backup every night and transaction log backups every 30 minutes. The storage team complains that the log backups are consuming too much space. Which change would reduce log backup storage consumption while still meeting the RPO?
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34application · medium
A small business has a single server hosting their accounting database. They have no backups. The owner asks what the minimum they should do to protect against a hard drive failure. Which recommendation is the most appropriate?
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35application · medium
A financial services firm runs a critical database that changes continuously during business hours. The RPO is 15 minutes and the RTO is 4 hours. The backup team currently performs a full backup every Sunday night and incremental backups every night at 11 PM. Which change best meets the RPO while keeping the backup window and storage impact reasonable?
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Which metric directly influences how frequently backups must be scheduled?

A healthcare organization must retain patient records for 7 years per regulation. They currently keep daily full backups for 1 year and monthly full backups for 5 years. The storage cost is rising. Which retention strategy maintains compliance while reducing storage consumption?

A small business has a single server hosting their accounting database. They have no backups. The owner asks what the minimum they should do to protect against a hard drive failure. Which recommendation is the most appropriate?

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