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Section 28 Planning for the worst Flashcards

1
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The individual elements, objects, or parts of a system that would cause the whole system to fail if they were to fail.

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Single Point of Failure

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2
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An enclosure that provides two or more complete power supplies.

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Redundant Power Supply

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3
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An unexpected increase in the amount of voltage provided.

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Surge

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4
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A short transient in voltage that can be due to a short circuit, tripped circuit breaker, power outage, or lightning strike.

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Spike

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5
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An unexpected decrease in the amount of voltage provided.

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Sag

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Occurs when the voltage drops low enough that it typically causes the lights to dim and can cause a comptuer to shut off.

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Brownout

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Occurs when there is a total loss of power for a prolonged period.

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Blackout

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8
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Combines the functionality of a surge protector with that of a battery backup.

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Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

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9
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An emergency power system used when there is an outage of the regular electric grid power.

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Backup Generator

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  1. Portable Gas Engine
  2. Permanently Installed
  3. Battery Inventer
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3 Types of Generators

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Allows the combination of multiple physical hard disks into a single logical hard disk drive that is recognized by the operating system.

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Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)

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12
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Provides data striping across multiple disks to increase performance.

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RAID 0

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Provides redundancy by mirroring the data identically on two hard disks.

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RAID 1

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14
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Provides redundancy by stripping data and parity data across the disk drives.

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RAID 5

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15
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Provides redundancy by stripping and double parity data across the disk drives.

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RAID 6

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16
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Creates a striped RAID of two mirrored RAIDs (Combines RAID 1 and RAID 0).

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RAID 10

17
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Protects against the loss of the array’s data if a single disk fails (RAID 1 or RAID 5).

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Fault Resistant RAID 0

18
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Provides two independent zones with full access to the data (RAID 10)

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Disaster Tolerant RAID

19
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Two or more servers working together to perform a particular job function.

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Cluster

20
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A secondary server can take over the function when the primary one fails.

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Failover Cluster

21
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Servers are clustered in order to share resources such as CPU, RAM, and hard disks.

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Load Balancing Cluster

22
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A near duplicate of the original site of the organization that can be up and running within minutes.

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Hot Site

23
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A site that has computers, phones and servers but they might require some configurations before users can start working.

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Warm Site

24
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A site that has tables, chairs, bathrooms, and possibly some technical items like phones and network cabling.

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Cold Site

25
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All of the contents of a drive are backed up.

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Full Backup

26
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Only conducts a backup of the contents of a drive that have changed since the last full or incremental backup.

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Incremental Backup

27
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Only conducts a backup of the contents of a drive that has changed since the last full backup.

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Differential Backup

28
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Each tape is used once per day for two weeks and then the entire set is reused.

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10 Tape Rotation

29
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Three sets of backup tapes are defined as the son (daily), the father (weekly), and grandfather (monthly).

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Grandfather Father Son

30
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Three sets of backup tapes (like the grandfather father son) that are rotated in a more complex system.

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Towers of Hano

31
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Type of backup primarily used to capture the entire operating system image including all application and data.

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Snapshot Backup

32
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The development of an organized and in depth plan for problems that could affect the access of data or the organization’s building.

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Disaster Recovery Planning

33
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A systematic activity that identifies organizational risks and determines their effect on ongoing, mission critical operations.

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Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

34
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The longest period of time a business can be inoperable without causing irrevocable business failure.

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Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)

35
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The length of time it takes after an event to resume normal business operations and activities.

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Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

36
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The length of time in addition to the RTO of individual systems to perform reintegration and testing of a restored or upgraded system following an event.

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Work Recovery Time (WRT)

37
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The longest period of time that an organizations can tolerate lost data being unrecoverable.

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Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

38
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Measures the average it takes to repair a network device when it breaks.

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Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)

39
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Measures the average time between failures of a device.

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Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

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