GIAC Critical Controls Certification
Domain 4Objective 2
Data Recovery GCCC Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Data Protection and Recovery domain, which makes up ~11% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~6–9 in this domain), expect 3–5 from this objective — we provide 38 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 1–5
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What does Recovery Point Objective (RPO) define?
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How does data recovery contribute to business continuity?
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A company's backup administrator is reviewing the quarterly restore test results. The file server restore completed in 4 hours, meeting the RTO of 6 hours. The database restore completed in 7 hours, exceeding the RTO of 6 hours. What should the administrator do?
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An e-commerce company has a 1 TB database. Management wants to reduce the RTO from 12 hours to 2 hours without increasing the RPO beyond 1 hour. The current backup strategy is a nightly full backup with a 6-hour restore time. Which approach best meets the new RTO while keeping the RPO at or below 1 hour?
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A financial trading platform has an RTO of 30 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes. The current backup solution uses nightly full backups plus transaction-log backups every 5 minutes. Restoring from the last full backup and replaying logs takes about 45 minutes. The team is evaluating options to meet the RTO without changing the RPO. Which approach is most appropriate?
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