Types of Disasters
Steps in Disaster Recovery
Miscellaneous
Backup Sites
Business Continuity
100
This disaster involves lots of water.
What is a flood?
100
This step involves defining the business, technical and operational requirements for a successful DR plan
Business Continuity Planning
100
The process of regaining access to the data, hardware and software necessary to resume critical business operations after a natural or a human caused disaster.
What is a Disaster Recovery Plan?
100
This is the most expensive type of backup site
What is a hot site
100
Business Continuity Planning is a subset of Disaster Recovery Planning. True / False
What is False
200
This disaster can include the IT department of the company.
What is a computer malfunction?
200
This step involves testing the disaster recovery plan on a regular basis.
Disaster Recovery Testing
200
This disaster lasted for 69 days before a plan was executed to rescue workers.
What is the Chilean mining disaster?
200
This type of site has a higher risk of continuing business operations and usually takes days or more to prepare
What is a cold site?
200
Ensuring survival of the organization in the event of a disaster is the goal of what planning?
What is Continuity.
300
This disaster may include a phone call to 911.
What is a fire?
300
This step involves coordinating with an outside disaster recovery service provider or internal IT team.
Failover Testing
300
It is used to create and validate a practiced plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption.
What is a Business Continuity Plan?
300
This is a site that the New York Board of Trade used on September 11th, 2001.
What is a hot site?
300
Who ultimately must approve the Business Continuity Plan before it is implemented?
What is Senior Management.
400
This type of disaster usually occurs through a random act of violence.
What is a terrorist attack?
400
This step involves making sure full documentation is compiled and circulated for all selected disaster recovery procedures, including time line estimates and required operational process changes.
Project Planning
400
Inadequate planning, failure to bring business into planning and testing of recovery efforts and failure to gain support from senior level managers.
What are the three most common mistakes in preparing DRP/BCP?
400
This type of site was utilized up until the 1993 bombing of the WTC.
What is a cold site?
400
In the context of Disaster Recovery Planning, what does RTO stand for?
What is Recovery Time Objective.
500
Lots of organizations located on or near fault lines have to prepare for this type of disaster.
What is an earthquake?
500
This step involves ensuring that all data needed for a suitable recovery is available and accessible in the event of a disaster, allowing for the potential inability to access any media assets in the data center.
Media Availability, Access, Restoration
500
This method is used to identify and assess risks that may impact operations.
What is Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?
500
This is a site that is mostly equipped and operational. It only takes up to a few hours to be up and running.
What is a warm site?
500
In the event of a disaster, what group needs to stay visible, communicate with employees, and manage business plans?
What is Senior Management.
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