Chapter 8

Which of the following is NOT considered a best practice for Microsoft Windows backup and recovery?

Schedule backups only after setting up a new system.

In which of the following situations would you need to rely on a disaster recovery plan (DRP)?

A fire or tornado damages your datacenter.

Which of the following refers to a restore that includes the operating system and all configuration settings?

Bare metal recovery

Which of the following covers the actions you must take when a disaster strikes to address the damage and return your infrastructure to a point where you can continue operations?

Business continuity plan (BCP)

Which of the following is an alternate security control that fulfills an original goal without implementing the primary control?

Compensating control

Which of the following ensures an organization can survive any disruption and continue operating?

Disaster recovery plan (DRP)

Which of the following is a complete copy of an environment at a remote site?

Hot site

Which of the following is a product that supports creating and running virtual machines in Windows Server 2008?

Hyper-V

Which of the following is NOT true about cloud computing?

It eliminates the need for backup and recovery plans.

Which of the following is the amount of time it should take to recover a resource and bring it back to normal operation?

Recovery time objective (RTO)

Which of the following is a collection of disks organized in a way that protects data by duplicating it or writing extra information to reconstruct any damaged data?

Redundant array of independent disks (RAID)

Which of the following is a contract with a vendor that guarantees replacement hardware or software within a specific amount of time?

Service level agreement (SLA)

Which of the following refers to a software implementation of a physical computer?

Virtual machine (VM)

Which of the following refers to the ability to run two or more virtual machines simultaneously on a single physical computer?

Virtualization

Which of the following is a Windows service that assists utilities and applications in creating snapshots of a running Windows system?

Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

A defined collection of copies of files created in case the primary copies of the files are damaged or destroyed is referred to as a:

backup

Which of the following refers to the copy of any piece of information that you use most frequently?

primary copy

The process of copying secondary copies of files back to their primary locations is referred to as a:

restore operation.

A copy of information created to assist in the recovery of the information in the event the primary copy is damaged or destroyed is referred to as a:

secondary copy.

The entire movement toward cloud computing is based on:

virtualization