Data Recovery Strategies EDRP Practice Questions (Page 10)

Questions 46–47

1. 46expert · hard

   A company's RTO for its customer relationship management (CRM) system is 4 hours. The current recovery plan involves restoring the CRM from backups stored on tape at an offsite facility. The tape retrieval and restore process takes 6 hours. The company's IT director wants to meet the RTO without replacing the backup system. Which additional strategy should the company implement?

   • APre-stage the CRM application on a warm site so only data needs to be restored
   • BUse asynchronous replication to a secondary site
   • CIncrease the frequency of tape backups to reduce the RPO
   • DSwitch to a cold site to reduce costs
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2. 47foundation · easy

   What is a characteristic of a cold site?

   • AIt provides only the physical infrastructure, such as power, cooling, and space, but no pre-installed equipment
   • BIt is a mobile unit that can be transported to a disaster location
   • CIt has fully configured servers and applications ready for immediate failover
   • DIt has some pre-configured hardware but not all systems
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