A company's DR plan requires restoring the database before the application server because the application depends on the database. During recovery, the database restore fails due to a corrupted backup. The team has another backup from 6 hours earlier that is intact. The RPO is 2 hours. What is the BEST course of action?

Declare the disaster unrecoverable and start over

Skip the database restore and bring up the application server first

Restore the older backup and accept the data loss, then document the issue for post-incident review

Use the corrupted backup and hope it restores partially

To ensure the DR plan can be executed even if the primary DR coordinator is unavailable, what should be established?

A backup of the DR plan stored offsite

A succession plan with designated alternates for key roles

A redundant communication system

During a disaster, the DR coordinator is responsible for coordinating the recovery efforts. However, the coordinator is also the only person who knows the credentials to the backup system. This creates a single point of failure. What is the BEST practice to mitigate this risk?

Use a break-glass account with credentials printed and sealed in a safe in the data center

Assign the DR coordinator role to a different person who is not the backup administrator

Store the backup system credentials in a secure digital vault accessible to multiple designated DR team members

Have the DR coordinator write the credentials on a piece of paper and keep it in their desk

After a disaster, the DR team conducts a lessons-learned review. They find that the emergency notification system was not activated because the DR coordinator did not have the necessary credentials. What is the MOST effective corrective action?

Document the issue in the lessons-learned report and close the review

Replace the emergency notification system with a manual call tree

Train the DR coordinator on how to use the emergency notification system

Ensure that multiple DR team members have access to the emergency notification system credentials

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7.11 - Implement Disaster Recovery (DR) Processes CISSP Practice Questions (Page 6)

Part of the Security Operations domain, which accounts for 13% of the CISSP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~9–16 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 29 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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A company's DR plan requires restoring the database before the application server because the application depends on the database. During recovery, the database restore fails due to a corrupted backup. The team has another backup from 6 hours earlier that is intact. The RPO is 2 hours. What is the BEST course of action?
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To ensure the DR plan can be executed even if the primary DR coordinator is unavailable, what should be established?
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During a disaster, the DR coordinator is responsible for coordinating the recovery efforts. However, the coordinator is also the only person who knows the credentials to the backup system. This creates a single point of failure. What is the BEST practice to mitigate this risk?
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After a disaster, the DR team conducts a lessons-learned review. They find that the emergency notification system was not activated because the DR coordinator did not have the necessary credentials. What is the MOST effective corrective action?
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7.11 - Implement Disaster Recovery (DR) Processes CISSP Practice Questions (Page 6)

Questions 26–29

To ensure the DR plan can be executed even if the primary DR coordinator is unavailable, what should be established?

During a disaster, the DR coordinator is responsible for coordinating the recovery efforts. However, the coordinator is also the only person who knows the credentials to the backup system. This creates a single point of failure. What is the BEST practice to mitigate this risk?

After a disaster, the DR team conducts a lessons-learned review. They find that the emergency notification system was not activated because the DR coordinator did not have the necessary credentials. What is the MOST effective corrective action?

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