During the implementation of a recovery strategy, which of the following is an example of coordination with external partners?

Assigning a recovery team leader

Updating the organization's marketing plan

Conducting a business impact analysis

Scheduling regular meetings with the alternate site provider to confirm readiness

Why is it important to document and communicate recovery responsibilities?

To eliminate the need for training

To ensure effective execution during a disruption

To satisfy regulatory requirements only

To reduce the number of recovery team members

A company has defined recovery roles for its IT team. The team leader is responsible for coordinating the recovery, and the system administrator is responsible for restoring servers. What is the most effective way to communicate these responsibilities to the team?

Verbally inform the team leader only

Include the responsibilities in the recovery plan and conduct a tabletop exercise

Post the responsibilities on a bulletin board in the server room

Send an email to the IT team only

Which of the following is an example of assigning a recovery role?

Designating the IT manager as the leader of the system recovery team

Selecting a hot site as the recovery alternative

A logistics company's order management system has an RTO of 2 hours and an RPO of 30 minutes. The company is considering two strategies: a hot site with synchronous replication (higher cost) and a warm site with asynchronous replication every 15 minutes (lower cost). The warm site can be activated in 90 minutes. Which strategy should the company choose?

Mobile recovery site with weekly replication

Hot site with synchronous replication

Warm site with asynchronous replication every 15 minutes

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Domain 5Objective 2

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Part of the Contingency Management domain, which accounts for 12% of the ISSMP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~8–14 in this domain), expect 2–4 from this objective — we provide 29 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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11foundation · easy
During the implementation of a recovery strategy, which of the following is an example of coordination with external partners?
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12foundation · easy
Why is it important to document and communicate recovery responsibilities?
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13application · medium
A company has defined recovery roles for its IT team. The team leader is responsible for coordinating the recovery, and the system administrator is responsible for restoring servers. What is the most effective way to communicate these responsibilities to the team?
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14foundation · easy
Which of the following is an example of assigning a recovery role?
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15expert · hard
A logistics company's order management system has an RTO of 2 hours and an RPO of 30 minutes. The company is considering two strategies: a hot site with synchronous replication (higher cost) and a warm site with asynchronous replication every 15 minutes (lower cost). The warm site can be activated in 90 minutes. Which strategy should the company choose?
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