A company's customer database has an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes. The database is backed up with a full backup every night and transaction log backups every 15 minutes. A recent disaster required restoring the database, and the total recovery time was 2 hours. Which change would MOST effectively reduce the recovery time to meet the RTO?

Switch to differential backups taken every hour.

Implement a standby database using log shipping.

Increase the frequency of full backups to every 4 hours.

Use a faster network for the backup storage.

An e-commerce company's order processing system has an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes. The system is hosted in a single cloud region. The company is considering a disaster recovery strategy. Which option would BEST meet the RTO and RPO?

Daily backups to a different region

Synchronous replication to a second region

Manual failover using snapshots taken every hour

Asynchronous replication with a 1-hour lag

Which redundancy mechanism is designed to protect against a single point of failure in a server's power supply?

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

During a regional power outage, a company's emergency response team activates the crisis management plan. The plan includes a communication tree, a list of emergency contacts, and procedures for declaring a disaster. What is the PRIMARY purpose of this plan?

To coordinate the immediate response and communication during the incident

To provide alternate processing sites for critical applications

To identify the financial impact of the outage

To restore IT systems to normal operation

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11expert · hard
A company's customer database has an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes. The database is backed up with a full backup every night and transaction log backups every 15 minutes. A recent disaster required restoring the database, and the total recovery time was 2 hours. Which change would MOST effectively reduce the recovery time to meet the RTO?
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12application · medium
An e-commerce company's order processing system has an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes. The system is hosted in a single cloud region. The company is considering a disaster recovery strategy. Which option would BEST meet the RTO and RPO?
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13foundation · easy
Which redundancy mechanism is designed to protect against a single point of failure in a server's power supply?
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14foundation · easy
Which component of an emergency response plan is specifically designed to provide immediate, step-by-step actions to protect life and safety during the first moments of an incident?
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15application · medium
During a regional power outage, a company's emergency response team activates the crisis management plan. The plan includes a communication tree, a list of emergency contacts, and procedures for declaring a disaster. What is the PRIMARY purpose of this plan?
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Questions 11–15

An e-commerce company's order processing system has an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes. The system is hosted in a single cloud region. The company is considering a disaster recovery strategy. Which option would BEST meet the RTO and RPO?

Which redundancy mechanism is designed to protect against a single point of failure in a server's power supply?

Which component of an emergency response plan is specifically designed to provide immediate, step-by-step actions to protect life and safety during the first moments of an incident?

During a regional power outage, a company's emergency response team activates the crisis management plan. The plan includes a communication tree, a list of emergency contacts, and procedures for declaring a disaster. What is the PRIMARY purpose of this plan?

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