Network Availability

Question 1

Availability

Answer 1

Being up and operational

Question 2

Reliability

Answer 2

not dropping packets

Question 3

mean time to repair

Answer 3

measures average it takes to repair something

Question 4

mean time between failures

Answer 4

amount of between once device failing fixing it and failing again

Question 5

NIC Teaming

Answer 5

Using a group of network interface cards for load balancing and failover on a server or other device

Question 6

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

Answer 6

Achieves redundancy by having multiple links between the network de4vices where load balancing over multiple links can occur

Question 7

Multipathing

Answer 7

Creates more than one physical path between the server and its storage devices for better fault tolerance and performance

Question 8

Cold Site

Answer 8

An available building that does not have any hardware or software in place or configured

Question 9

Warm site

Answer 9

building is available and already has a lot of the equipment; may not maintain it fully every year

Question 10

Hot Site

Answer 10

An available building with equipment and data; ready for an instant switch

Question 11

Cloud Site

Answer 11

not exactly full recovery; virtual recovery site that allows you to create it in the cloud; paying cloud service provider

Question 12

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Answer 12

How much time did it take to recovery after the notification of business process disruption?

Question 13

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Answer 13

Interval of time during a disruption before data lost exceeds the BCP’s maximum allowable threshold or tolerance

Question 14

Incremental Backup

Answer 14

only backup the stuff since doing the last backup

Question 15

Differential Backup

Answer 15

Entire difference since the last full backup

Question 16

Snapshot

Answer 16

Read-only copy of your data in a frozen state

Question 17

PDU

Answer 17

usually takes the form of a large cabinet; not full blackout compatible

Question 18

Quality of Service

Answer 18

It’s when prioritize different things to make your network operate more efficiently

Question 19

Delay

Answer 19

The time a packet travels from source to destination

Question 20

Jitter

Answer 20

Uneven arrival of packets which is especially harmful in VoIP traffic

Question 21

Drops

Answer 21

Occurs during link congestion when a router’s interface queue overflows and causes packet loss

Question 22

Shaping

Answer 22

Allows buffer to delay traffic from exceeding the configured rate