Chapter 3

FRDS

A RAID implementation that protects against data loss due to disk failure

FTDS

A RAID implementation that protects against loss of data access due to a single component's failure

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

A ____ is commonly a single device or server that attaches to a network and uses TCP/IP-based protocols and communications methods to provide an online storage environment.

Service Bureau

A _______ is an agency that provides physical facilities in the event of a disaster for a fee.

Time-Share

A potential disadvantage of a ______ site-resumption strategy is that more than one organization might need the facility simultaneously

Hot Site

A resumption location known as a ____ is a fully configured computer facility capable of establishing operations at a moment's notice.

Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA)

A(n) ____ covers the confidentiality of information from everyone unless disclosure is mandated by the courts.

Statement of Indemnification

A(n) ________ is often included in legal documents to ensure that a vendor is not liable for actions taken by a client

SaaS (Software as a Service)

Advances in cloud computing have opened a new field in application redundancy and backup. Because organizations that lease ____ are in effect using a preconfigured set of applications on someone else's systems, it is reasonable to ask that the service agreement include contingencies for recovery.

Bare Metal Recovery

Allows you to reboot a system from a CD-ROM

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Applications that are made available to users over the Internet

Retention

Both data backups and archives should be based on a(n) ____ schedule that guides the frequency of replacement and the duration of storage.

Electronic Vaulting

Bulk transfer of data in batches to an off-site facility

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Development platforms that are made available to developers over the Internet

Public Cloud

Implementation in which a service provider makes computing resources available over the Internet

Community Cloud

Implementation in which several organizations share computing resources

Disk Mirroring

Implementation of RAID Level 1

Disk Striping

RAID 0 creates one logical volume across several available hard disk drives and stores the data using ____, in which data segments are written in turn to each disk drive in the array.

Robustness

Some recovery strategies seek to improve the ____ of a server or system in addition to, or instead of, performing backups of data.

False

T/F: For recovery from an incident (as opposed to a disaster), archives are used as the most common solution.

True

T/F: One real-time protection and data backup strategy is the use of mirroring

False

T/F: RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Incident-Recovery Drives.

Virtual Machine

When using virtualization, it is commonplace to use the term ____ to refer to a virtualized environment operating in or on a host platform.

Data Archives

____ are used for recovery from disasters that threaten on-site backups.

RAID

____ uses a number of hard drives to store information across multiple drive units