CCP CCP Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What does RTO (Recovery Time Objective) define in a disaster recovery plan?
- The maximum acceptable downtime before systems must be restored (Correct answer)
- The amount of data that can be lost in a disaster
- The cost of recovering from a disaster
- The frequency of backup operations
Correct answer: The maximum acceptable downtime before systems must be restored
RTO is the maximum acceptable length of time that a system can be offline before the outage causes unacceptable business impact.
Question 2: What does RPO (Recovery Point Objective) represent?
- Maximum tolerable data loss measured in time (Correct answer)
- The geographic location of backup systems
- The number of recovery sites required
- The cost of data restoration
Correct answer: Maximum tolerable data loss measured in time
RPO defines the maximum age of data that must be recovered from backup storage for normal operations to resume after a failure.
Question 3: Which type of disaster recovery site is fully equipped and operational, ready to take over immediately?
- Hot site (Correct answer)
- Warm site
- Cold site
- Mirror site
Correct answer: Hot site
A hot site is a fully operational duplicate of the primary site that can take over immediately with little to no downtime.
Question 4: A cold site in disaster recovery is best described as:
- A facility with power and connectivity but no pre-installed hardware or data (Correct answer)
- A facility fully mirroring the primary data center
- A cloud-based backup solution
- A mobile recovery unit
Correct answer: A facility with power and connectivity but no pre-installed hardware or data
A cold site provides only the basic infrastructure (power, HVAC, connectivity) and requires equipment installation and data restoration before use.
Question 5: Which backup strategy involves copying only the files that have changed since the last full backup?
- Incremental backup (Correct answer)
- Differential backup
- Full backup
- Mirror backup
Correct answer: Incremental backup
Incremental backup copies only data changed since the last backup of any type, minimizing storage use but requiring multiple sets for restoration.
Question 6: A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) primarily identifies:
- Critical business functions and the impact of their disruption (Correct answer)
- Network vulnerabilities and attack vectors
- Employee performance metrics during crises
- Hardware replacement costs
Correct answer: Critical business functions and the impact of their disruption
A BIA identifies critical business processes and evaluates the financial and operational impact of their disruption to prioritize recovery efforts.
CCP CCP Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery 1
What does RTO (Recovery Time Objective) define in a disaster recovery plan?