BEC 4.6

Question 1

What is disaster recovery and what is the difference between a hot site and a cold site?

Answer 1

Disaster recovery consists of plans for continuing operations in the event of destruction of not only programs and data but also processing capability

A hot site is an off-site location that is equipped to take over a company’s data processing.

A cold site is an off-site location that has all of the electrical connections and other physical requirements for data processing but does not have the actual equipment

Question 2

What are 3 types of backups to perform to recover lost data?

Answer 2

1. Full backup
2. Incremental backup
3. Differential backup

Question 3

What are 3 types of disaster recovery?

Answer 3

1. Disaster recovery service
2. Internal disaster recovery
3. Multiple data center backups

Question 4

What are the 3 types of off-site location?

Answer 4

1. Cold site
2. Warm site
3. Hot site

Question 5

What is the disadvantages of a disaster recovery and business continuity plan?

Answer 5

Cost and effort required to implement the plan