Why is disaster recovery critical for organizational resilience?

It helps maintain business operations, protect reputation, and meet compliance requirements

It eliminates the need for cybersecurity insurance

It ensures that all employees receive a pay raise during emergencies

It guarantees that no data will ever be lost

A healthcare provider is updating its disaster recovery plan. The organization must maintain patient care during a regional outage and comply with regulations that require rapid access to electronic health records. Which outcome best reflects the primary purpose of this DR plan?

Eliminate the need for backup sites by using redundant hardware

Restore IT systems and data quickly to minimize downtime and data loss

Guarantee that no patient data is ever lost in any scenario

Prevent any security breach from occurring during the outage

In a disaster recovery plan, what is the purpose of a backup site?

To house the organization's security operations center

To serve as a marketing office for the organization

To store physical documents that are not critical to operations

To provide an alternate location where IT systems can be restored and operated

A regional bank must restore its core banking application within 4 hours of a disaster and lose no more than 15 minutes of transactions. The application runs on virtual machines in a primary data center. Which combination of strategies should the DR plan specify?

Replicate virtual machines to a warm standby site and take transaction log backups every 15 minutes

Maintain a cold site and perform daily full backups

Store encrypted backups in a remote vault and restore to new hardware

Use a hot standby site with asynchronous replication and hourly backups

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Domain 2Objective 2

2.2 - Understand Disaster Recovery (DR) CC Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Business Continuity (BC), Disaster Recovery (DR) & Incident Response Concepts domain, which accounts for 10% of the CC exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~5–8 in this domain), expect 2–3 from this objective — we provide 13 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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6foundation · easy
Why is disaster recovery critical for organizational resilience?
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7application · medium
A healthcare provider is updating its disaster recovery plan. The organization must maintain patient care during a regional outage and comply with regulations that require rapid access to electronic health records. Which outcome best reflects the primary purpose of this DR plan?
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8application · medium
A company's DR plan includes a warm standby site with replicated servers and daily backups. The plan specifies a recovery point objective (RPO) of 24 hours. Which component of the plan directly supports this RPO?
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9foundation · easy
In a disaster recovery plan, what is the purpose of a backup site?
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10application · medium
A regional bank must restore its core banking application within 4 hours of a disaster and lose no more than 15 minutes of transactions. The application runs on virtual machines in a primary data center. Which combination of strategies should the DR plan specify?
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