What is the primary goal of a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)?

To maintain essential business functions at an alternate site

To restore IT systems and data to operational status after a disaster

To communicate with stakeholders after a disaster

To ensure the safety of employees during a disaster

What is the primary focus of a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)?

Responding to immediate security incidents

Transferring operations to a cloud provider permanently

Restoring IT systems and data after a disaster

Ensuring that essential functions continue during and after a disruption

Which trigger should prompt an update to a contingency plan?

A change in the company's marketing slogan

A minor change in employee office location

A significant change in the organization's IT infrastructure

A routine software update to a non-critical application

A city government's continuity of operations plan (COOP) designates an alternate facility for essential staff. During a recent tabletop exercise, participants discovered that the alternate facility lacks the network connectivity required to access the city's critical applications. What is the most appropriate immediate action to address this gap?

Conduct another exercise to confirm the connectivity issue before making any changes.

Reclassify the affected applications as non-essential to avoid the connectivity requirement.

Cancel the alternate facility and require all staff to work remotely from home.

Update the COOP to include a procedure for establishing temporary network connectivity at the alternate facility.

During a ransomware incident, an organization's incident response team isolates affected systems to contain the spread. However, the continuity of operations plan requires the order processing system to remain available. What is the best course of action to balance containment and continuity?

Shut down all systems, including the alternate site, to ensure complete containment.

Keep the order processing system online and monitor it for signs of ransomware.

Immediately restore the order processing system from backups without isolating it.

Activate the contingency plan to run order processing from the alternate site while the primary systems are isolated.

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Domain 5Objective 1

Contingency Planning CCOA Practice Questions (Page 3)

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Questions 11–15

11foundation · easy
What is the primary goal of a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)?
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12foundation · easy
What is the primary focus of a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)?
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13foundation · easy
Which trigger should prompt an update to a contingency plan?
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14application · medium
A city government's continuity of operations plan (COOP) designates an alternate facility for essential staff. During a recent tabletop exercise, participants discovered that the alternate facility lacks the network connectivity required to access the city's critical applications. What is the most appropriate immediate action to address this gap?
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15application · medium
During a ransomware incident, an organization's incident response team isolates affected systems to contain the spread. However, the continuity of operations plan requires the order processing system to remain available. What is the best course of action to balance containment and continuity?
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