A financial services firm must recover its trading database within 30 minutes of a failure, but the database is 5 TB and changes constantly. The firm has a secondary data center 200 miles away with a 1 Gbps link. The current backup strategy is a nightly full backup to local disk and a weekly copy to the remote site. The RTO is not being met. Which strategy would best meet the RTO while maintaining an offsite copy?

Switch to nightly differential backups and copy them to the remote site daily.

Use continuous backup to cloud storage with a 30-minute recovery point objective.

Increase the frequency of full backups to every 6 hours and store them on local disk only.

Implement synchronous replication of the database to the remote site and keep nightly backups for point-in-time recovery.

How do backups and retention policies support disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans?

They prevent disasters from occurring in the first place

They provide the data needed to restore operations after a disaster

They guarantee that all data is available in real time during a disaster

They eliminate the need for a formal DR plan

A financial services company must retain customer transaction records for seven years per regulatory requirements. After that period, they want to keep the data for potential internal analytics but do not need rapid access. Which approach best satisfies both needs?

Delete the data after seven years to comply with the regulation.

Keep the data in the same backup system for seven years, then delete it.

Move the data to an archival storage tier after seven years and keep it there.

Continue daily backups indefinitely and store them on tape.

An organization performs nightly backups to an on-premises NAS and has never tested a restore. After a server failure, they discover the backup software reported success but the restore fails because the backup files are corrupt. Which practice would have most likely prevented this situation?

Using a different backup software product.

Performing periodic test restores of the backups.

Increasing the frequency of full backups.

Storing backups on a different NAS.

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A financial services firm must recover its trading database within 30 minutes of a failure, but the database is 5 TB and changes constantly. The firm has a secondary data center 200 miles away with a 1 Gbps link. The current backup strategy is a nightly full backup to local disk and a weekly copy to the remote site. The RTO is not being met. Which strategy would best meet the RTO while maintaining an offsite copy?
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How do backups and retention policies support disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans?
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A financial services company must retain customer transaction records for seven years per regulatory requirements. After that period, they want to keep the data for potential internal analytics but do not need rapid access. Which approach best satisfies both needs?
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An organization performs nightly backups to an on-premises NAS and has never tested a restore. After a server failure, they discover the backup software reported success but the restore fails because the backup files are corrupt. Which practice would have most likely prevented this situation?
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Which backup storage medium is known for its low cost per gigabyte and long-term archival stability, but typically has slower access times?
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How do backups and retention policies support disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans?

A financial services company must retain customer transaction records for seven years per regulatory requirements. After that period, they want to keep the data for potential internal analytics but do not need rapid access. Which approach best satisfies both needs?

An organization performs nightly backups to an on-premises NAS and has never tested a restore. After a server failure, they discover the backup software reported success but the restore fails because the backup files are corrupt. Which practice would have most likely prevented this situation?

Which backup storage medium is known for its low cost per gigabyte and long-term archival stability, but typically has slower access times?

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