A financial services firm must retain seven years of transaction records for compliance. The data is rarely accessed after the first year, but must be recoverable within 24 hours if requested. The firm currently uses on-premises disk storage for backups. Which backup storage approach best balances cost, compliance, and recovery requirements?

Store all backups on high-performance on-premises disk for the full seven years

Use tape for the first year and disk for the remaining six years

Use only cloud storage with a cold tier for all seven years

Use disk for the first year, then migrate older backups to tape stored offsite

A company uses a tape rotation scheme with 5 tapes for daily backups, 4 tapes for weekly backups, and 12 tapes for monthly backups. They want to ensure they can restore data from at least the last 4 weeks and also keep a monthly tape for 12 months. Which rotation scheme should they adopt?

First-in, first-out (FIFO) with 5 tapes.

Tower of Hanoi with 5 tapes only.

Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) with daily, weekly, and monthly tapes.

Random rotation with no fixed schedule.

What is the purpose of performing a test restore of a backup?

To speed up the backup process by identifying bottlenecks

To encrypt backup data for security

To reduce the storage space required for backups

To verify that the backup data is intact and can be successfully restored

When designing a backup retention policy, what is the primary factor that determines how long backups must be retained?

The number of backup administrators

The type of backup software used

The speed of the backup storage media

Regulatory and compliance requirements

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A financial services firm must retain seven years of transaction records for compliance. The data is rarely accessed after the first year, but must be recoverable within 24 hours if requested. The firm currently uses on-premises disk storage for backups. Which backup storage approach best balances cost, compliance, and recovery requirements?
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A company uses a tape rotation scheme with 5 tapes for daily backups, 4 tapes for weekly backups, and 12 tapes for monthly backups. They want to ensure they can restore data from at least the last 4 weeks and also keep a monthly tape for 12 months. Which rotation scheme should they adopt?
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What is the purpose of performing a test restore of a backup?
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When designing a backup retention policy, what is the primary factor that determines how long backups must be retained?
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