Business Continuity

Question 1

Business Continuity Planning (BCP or COOP)

Answer 1

Controls designed to keep a business running in the face of adversity, natural or man-made

Question 2

Business Impact Assessment

Answer 2

Identifies and prioritizes risks

Question 3

Redundancy

Answer 3

Protects against failure of a single component

Question 4

Single point of failure analysis (SPOFA)

Answer 4

Identifies and removes single points of failure

Question 5

High Availability

Answer 5

Uses multiple system to protect against system failure

Question 6

Fault Tolerance

Answer 6

Makes a single system resilient against technical failure

Question 7

Load Balancing

Answer 7

Spreads demand across systems

Question 8

Raid

Answer 8

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

Question 9

Mirroring (Raid 1)

Answer 9

Makes same changes to both disks

Question 10

Disk striping with parity (Raid 5)

Answer 10

Uses 3 or more disks to store data and parity information. System can regenerate disk contents using parity information

Question 11

Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS)

Answer 11

Battery power for brief disruptions

Question 12

Managed Power Distribution Units (PDUs)

Answer 12

Provide power cleaning and management for a rack