Final Review (Modules 7 - 12) - Data Security & Disaster Recovery

Which of the following BCP Test plan aimed to ensure that the employees of an organization are familiar with the BCP?

Orientation Test.

In centralized computing, which architecture's server acts as a task scheduler and coordinated the actions among the systems?

Peer-to-Peer Architecture.

Systems running on operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Macintosh can be recovered by the help of their inbuilt ________ features.

Recovery.

Which of the BCP training program is meant for those employees who have a role to play in the execution of the BCP, and also helps in raising their skill levels, as well as assist the employees in improving the BCP?

Scenario Training.

What is data loss?

Any incident that results in data being corrupted, deleted, or made unreadable by users.

The Time Machine of the Mac OS uses which of the following file sharing protocol?

Apple File Protocol.

The vital records in an organization are usually maintained and managed by its IT department. Documenting these records provides a backup to the IT department's copies of the records. Which of the following are not considered as a part of vital records?

Audio Records.

Which of the following BCP Test plan involves the mobilization of the resources and demonstrates the emergency management capabilities of the various employee groups?

Functional Test.

_______ _____ ____ can be recovered from the boot failure issues like boot manager and startup failure.

Windows Server 2012.

Identify the type of tier under which the data is backed up and transported to an off-site facility where the data redundancy is guaranteed but it does not have the option to recover the data in the shortest timespan.

Tier 1: Data Backup without a Hot Site.

The ___ concept encompasses all disaster recovery techniques and helps keep data safe and secure.

3DR.

Data loss is appropriately applied on data both at ____ and when in ______ (transmitted over the network).

Rest; Motion.

Virtual machines are created with the help of a logical entity called __________.

Hypervisor.

An ________ _____ takes place so as to ensure that the BCP conforms to the ISO 22301:2012 standard, and as well as if it is effectively implemented and maintained.

Internal audit.

What are the key disaster recovery documentation activities?

1. Disaster recovery lists. 2. Vital records. 3. Diagrams. 4. Assessments.

What is system recovery?

A process of restoring a system to its previous state in the case of data losses due to disasters.

What are the various methods of BCP testing?

1. Orientation test. 2. Tabletop test. 3. Functional test. 4. Full-scale test.

What are the three stages of auditing a BCP?

1. Overall program governance. 2. Ongoing program management. 3. Management of process changes.

There are various ways in which we can apply virtualization for the disaster recovery. In desktop virtualization, the desktop environment is separate from the physical device, which is used to access it, this process is also called as ______________.

Client Virtualization.

What are the phases of recovery management?

1. Recognition of outage. 2. Notifying the management and the customers about the outage. 3. Implementation and execution of recovery and restoration procedure. 4. Analyzing the issues due to the outage. 5. Postmortem review of recovery and restoration procedures. 6. Resumption of normal operations. 7. Notifying the management and customers about the same.

Backup of virtual systems can be taken through _________ and ___________.

Snapshots; checkpoints.

What are the components of the disaster recovery planning process?

1. Scope statement. 2. Exclusions. 3. System description. 4. Interrogation. 5. Activation procedures. 6. Execution procedures.

What factors affect disaster recovery strategies?

1. Technology. 2. Data criticality. 3. Sites. 4. People. 5. Policies and procedures.

What is Domino Server?

An IBM server application platform used for enterprise email, messaging, scheduling, and collaboration.

______ _______ is an integral part of the server.

Active Directory.

In decentralized computing, which architecture's terminals have their own memories and do not share memories?

Loosely Coupled Architecture.

The process of collecting data from different backup applications across multiple servers and then is stored in a uniform database is called.

Data Consolidation.

Identify the following Scenario Training phase where the employees are provided with feedback form once the exercise is completed.

Execution Phase.

What is virtualization?

The creation of a logical component to simulate a physical one.

In which phase of scenario based category of the BCP Training program, a fixed window is set so as not to cause any adverse effects to the business?

Warning Phase.

In case of any disaster, the ___________ and _______________ ________ _______ can recover the Active Directory.

Authoritative; non-authoritative.

Recovery of the system volume can be done by either ____________ ________ or _____________ ________.

Authoritative; non-authoritative.

Comprehensive BCP training plans should include two key types of training: ________ training and ________ training.

Awareness; scenario.

What is the main objective of testing?

To ensure that the disaster recovery plan works when a disruptive incident occurs.

What is the primary objective of a BCP test plan?

To ensure that the plan is accurate and relevant under adverse circumstances.

The two types of data recovery are _______ data recovery & _______ data recovery.

Logical; physical.

The Metabase XML file is stored in the following directory of the server running the IIS.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv

___________ computing architecture includes client-server architecture, peer-to-peer architecture, and tightly coupled architecture.

Centralized.

An organization should have the team organizational structure in place for an efficient and successful disaster recovery plan. Which of the following teams is responsible for the implementation and execution of the disaster recovery plan, including test plans?

The Operations Team.

What are the steps involved in data recovery?

1. Evaluation of storage media. 2. Documentation. 3. Actual recovery. 4. Precautions.

What are the components of the disaster recovery plan?

1. Identifying risks. 2. Determining the threat levels. 3. Developing a flexible response plan. 4. Documenting the recovery approach.

What are the different types of virtualization?

1. Network virtualization. 2. Server virtualization. 3. OS virtualization. 4. Desktop virtualization. 5. Storage virtualization. 6. Data virtualization. 7. Software-defined data centers.

What is data replication?

A process of taking frequent copies of important data that are present on a server to another remote server, which results in distributed database clusters, and is readily available to the user of one of the data servers fail.

What is centralized backup?

A process that involves automatically replicating data from remote sites and sending it over a network to a main (centralized) location for storage.

What is data consolidation?

A process wherein data is collected from different backup applications across multiple servers and is then stored in a central database.

What is WebSphere Application Server?

A software product from IBM that is popular for the role for a web application server and allows web applications to run inside them by providing server capabilities.

The standard system which performs network management from a central location taking care of user data, distributed resources, and security is called.

Active Directory.

What is MySQL Server?

An open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) based on Structured Query Language (SQL).

The two types of hypervisors are ____ _____ & ______.

Bare metal; hosted.

The Linux OS provides the snapshots facility for the system recovery, and which of the following is a special option to take snapshots of the Linux system, on every system recovery?

Boot Snapshot.

What is recovery management?

The act, manner, or practice of an organization to bring systems, applications, and data back to "normal" conditions in a prescribed and acceptable time frame.

In centralized computing, which architecture has the single point of failure?

Client-Server Architecture.

The process primarily to assemble heterogeneous data from different sources in a manner that it can be accessed in a consistent manner from a single access point is called.

Data Federation.

A _____________ computing system is a collection of autonomous computers that communicate with one another to perform a common service.

Decentralized.

____________ computing architecture includes peer-to-peer architecture and loosely-coupled architecture.

Decentralized.

Which of the following Disaster Recovery Sub-teams are responsible for assigning the research, and in carrying out the development and implementation of the disaster recovery plan throughout the organization.

Disaster Management Chairpersons.

Team organization structure plays an important role in an organization in order to have a successful disaster recovery plan. Identify the team player from below who has day-to-day administration control over the implementation and upkeep of the disaster recovery program.

Disaster Recovery Coordinator.

There are primarily two entities involved in virtualization: a _____ and a ____.

Guest; host.

An __________ _____ of an organization's BCP by a third-party provides feedback and helps in ensuring that the plans are equipped enough to prevent a failure.

Independent audit.

Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server for the email management, which of the following messaging protocol is used by it.

Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI).

The Global Catalog is replicated inside a Global Catalog server with the help of the following.

Multimaster Replication methods.

Which of the following acts as virtual server in case when a server went down and performs off-site data backup in the data centers?

Network Attached Storage.

Virtualization standards like ___ help in the packaging of virtual machines in a vendor neutral way.

OVF.

Identify the recovery metric that defines the usability of recovered data by the associated application.

Recovery Consistency Characteristics (RCC).

Which of the following Recovery metric measures the ability of a recovery solution in order to track events and recover an application or data to a specific event?

Recovery Event Granularity (REG).

Which of the following Recovery scalability metrics defines how well a recovery management solution tolerates failures that include system and data failures as well as data security authorization.

Recovery Service Resiliency (RSR).

__________ provides block-level data storage and its physical components can be heterogeneous in nature and are connected through a network, switches, and adaptors.

SAN.

The process of ______ ________ involves the retrieval of critical system data like operating systems, installed software, and important production-related data.

System recovery.

______ ______ contains commonly shared files and replicated public files of a domain.

System volume.

What are survivable storage systems?

Systems that maintain data and access to it in the face of malicious and accidental problems with storage servers, interconnection networks, client systems, and user accounts.

Identify the Recovery Management Model Layer that performs positive analysis for determining the potential impact of changes in the environment on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and other operational factors.

Testing Simulation Layer.

What does the implementation phase involve?

The formation of a plan document or a plan flowchart that will help the employees in carrying out the steps to be taken in the case of a disaster.

What is data recovery?

The process of retrieving data from a drive or any other type of storage media when data is rendered inaccessible due to corrupted or damaged storage media.