What is the primary purpose of data recovery in an organization?

To regularly archive data to offsite storage

To restore lost or corrupted data to a usable state after an incident

To ensure data is encrypted during transmission

To prevent any data loss from occurring in the first place

What is a key characteristic of an incremental backup?

It backs up all data every time, regardless of changes

It only backs up data at the end of the month

It backs up only data that has changed since the last backup of any type

It backs up all changes since the last full backup

A company's headquarters is destroyed by a fire. The IT team activates the disaster recovery plan, which includes restoring critical systems at an alternate site. The team successfully restores the customer database from backups, but the application servers are not yet operational. Which statement best describes the situation?

The organization has met its RTO because the data is available

Data recovery has occurred, but disaster recovery is incomplete until the application servers are operational

Data recovery is not complete until the application servers are restored

Disaster recovery is complete because the data is restored

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Data Recovery GCCC Practice Questions (Page 8)

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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A company's headquarters is destroyed by a fire. The IT team activates the disaster recovery plan, which includes restoring critical systems at an alternate site. The team successfully restores the customer database from backups, but the application servers are not yet operational. Which statement best describes the situation?
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Data Recovery GCCC Practice Questions (Page 8)

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What is the primary purpose of data recovery in an organization?

What is a key characteristic of an incremental backup?

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