A company's disaster recovery plan has passed tabletop exercises and a partial failover test. The IT manager now wants to conduct a full failover test to validate the entire plan. The production system handles live customer transactions. Which approach should the IT manager take to minimize risk during the full failover test?

Schedule the test during a planned maintenance window and notify all stakeholders

Fail over only the least critical systems and skip the critical ones

Perform the test during peak business hours to test under load

Run the test without prior notice to simulate a real disaster

A law firm must retain client case files for 10 years to comply with regulatory requirements. The files are rarely accessed after the case closes, but they must be available for legal discovery. The firm currently stores these files on the same backup system used for daily operational recovery. Which approach best addresses the firm's needs?

Delete the files after the case closes to reduce storage costs

Keep the files in the backup system with a 10-year retention policy

Move the files to an archive tier with a 10-year retention policy and keep backups for operational recovery

Store the files only in the daily backup and restore them when needed

A database administrator creates a snapshot of a production VM at 10:00 AM. At 10:30 AM, a software update corrupts several files on the VM. The administrator reverts the VM to the snapshot. Which statement accurately describes the outcome?

The VM must be shut down before the snapshot can be applied

The snapshot is deleted after the revert operation

Only the corrupted files are reverted; other changes are preserved

All changes made between 10:00 AM and 10:30 AM are lost

A legal firm must retain client case files for 10 years to comply with regulatory requirements, but these files are rarely accessed after a case closes. The firm also needs to recover accidentally deleted or corrupted files from the last 30 days. Which storage strategy should the firm implement?

Keep all files in the backup system for 10 years

Use snapshots for all files and retain them for 10 years

Archive all files and rely on the archive for recovery

Archive closed case files to long-term storage and maintain short-term backups for active files

A company is considering moving its disaster recovery to the cloud. The company has a 4-hour RPO and an 8-hour RTO. The IT team is concerned about the cost of cloud resources and the time to restore large volumes of data. Which cloud-based recovery strategy best balances cost and recovery requirements?

Always-on hot standby in the cloud with synchronous replication

Cloud replication with hourly snapshots and pre-provisioned virtual machines

Cloud archive storage with monthly snapshots

Cloud backup with daily backups and on-demand restore

EC-CouncilDisaster Recovery Professional

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11expert · hard
A company's disaster recovery plan has passed tabletop exercises and a partial failover test. The IT manager now wants to conduct a full failover test to validate the entire plan. The production system handles live customer transactions. Which approach should the IT manager take to minimize risk during the full failover test?
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A law firm must retain client case files for 10 years to comply with regulatory requirements. The files are rarely accessed after the case closes, but they must be available for legal discovery. The firm currently stores these files on the same backup system used for daily operational recovery. Which approach best addresses the firm's needs?
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A database administrator creates a snapshot of a production VM at 10:00 AM. At 10:30 AM, a software update corrupts several files on the VM. The administrator reverts the VM to the snapshot. Which statement accurately describes the outcome?
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A legal firm must retain client case files for 10 years to comply with regulatory requirements, but these files are rarely accessed after a case closes. The firm also needs to recover accidentally deleted or corrupted files from the last 30 days. Which storage strategy should the firm implement?
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A company is considering moving its disaster recovery to the cloud. The company has a 4-hour RPO and an 8-hour RTO. The IT team is concerned about the cost of cloud resources and the time to restore large volumes of data. Which cloud-based recovery strategy best balances cost and recovery requirements?
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Questions 11–15

A database administrator creates a snapshot of a production VM at 10:00 AM. At 10:30 AM, a software update corrupts several files on the VM. The administrator reverts the VM to the snapshot. Which statement accurately describes the outcome?

A legal firm must retain client case files for 10 years to comply with regulatory requirements, but these files are rarely accessed after a case closes. The firm also needs to recover accidentally deleted or corrupted files from the last 30 days. Which storage strategy should the firm implement?

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