A financial institution's trading system has an RTO of 5 minutes and an RPO of zero. The institution is considering two strategies: a hot site with synchronous replication and a cloud-based active-active configuration. The hot site is located in the same city as the primary site. The cloud provider offers a 99.99% availability SLA. Which strategy is more appropriate?

Cloud-based active-active configuration

Neither, because the RTO is too stringent

Hot site with synchronous replication

A company is implementing a new recovery strategy that involves a third-party recovery site. The implementation requires changes to network configurations, data replication, and user access. Which action is most important to ensure successful implementation?

Delay implementation until the next fiscal year

Purchase new servers for the recovery site

Let each team implement its changes independently

Assign a project manager to oversee the implementation

During the development of recovery strategies, an organization evaluates alternatives such as hot sites, warm sites, cold sites, and redundant systems. What is the primary purpose of identifying these recovery alternatives?

To select the least expensive option regardless of recovery time objectives

To guarantee that all recovery strategies are implemented simultaneously

To eliminate the need for a business impact analysis

To provide a range of possible approaches for restoring operations after a disruption

A bank's online banking system has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of zero. The bank is considering a hot site with synchronous replication and a warm site with asynchronous replication every 5 minutes. Which strategy should the bank recommend?

Warm site with asynchronous replication every 5 minutes

Hot site with synchronous replication

Mobile recovery site with weekly replication

An organization is identifying recovery alternatives for its critical database system. Which of the following is an example of a recovery alternative?

A list of recovery team members

A business impact analysis report

A warm site with pre-installed hardware and software, but no current data

A disaster recovery plan test schedule

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Domain 5Objective 2

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A financial institution's trading system has an RTO of 5 minutes and an RPO of zero. The institution is considering two strategies: a hot site with synchronous replication and a cloud-based active-active configuration. The hot site is located in the same city as the primary site. The cloud provider offers a 99.99% availability SLA. Which strategy is more appropriate?
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2application · medium
A company is implementing a new recovery strategy that involves a third-party recovery site. The implementation requires changes to network configurations, data replication, and user access. Which action is most important to ensure successful implementation?
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During the development of recovery strategies, an organization evaluates alternatives such as hot sites, warm sites, cold sites, and redundant systems. What is the primary purpose of identifying these recovery alternatives?
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4application · medium
A bank's online banking system has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of zero. The bank is considering a hot site with synchronous replication and a warm site with asynchronous replication every 5 minutes. Which strategy should the bank recommend?
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An organization is identifying recovery alternatives for its critical database system. Which of the following is an example of a recovery alternative?
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