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CISSP Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hot Site






2. Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)






3. Differential Backup






4. Continuity Planning






5. What functions should be moved back first during the Reconstitution Phase?






6. Restoration Team






7. Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)






8. What are management's responsibilities with regards to BCP planning?






9. How should a company - during the BIA phase - find out what the risks of its geographical location are? And how should they find out how to access emergency zones?






10. What are some appropriate and cost-effective preventative methods to better fortify a company from the impacts recognized in the BIA?






11. What issues does a company need to look at when determining when it should move into Reconstitution Phase?






12. Skeleton Crew






13. What are some examples of teams a company may need to construct - train - and have available in the event of a disaster?






14. What is the general structure of a BCP?






15. If a company loses computing capabilities for a week - what is the chance they will go out of business (on average)?






16. Why do you need a combination of consultants and employees on the BCP team?






17. Cyberinsurance






18. Especially in a software development environment - what should be backed up?






19. As a general rule of thumb - how far away should a backup facility be from the main facility?






20. Role of the Business Continuity Coordinator






21. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)






22. Disk Mirroring






23. What are the three main types of threats?






24. What is one of the big issues with legacy equipment and disaster recovery?


25. What tasks should the BCP team carry out and have addressed in the resulting plan?






26. NIST Steps for Business Continuity






27. What is the main limitation of insurance coverage?


28. What are some of the characteristics you should look at when creating a BIA?






29. Business Continuity Plan (BCP)






30. Full-Interruption Test






31. What are the benefits of using the Differential or Incremental backup methods?






32. What are the different types of recovery plans?






33. What is one of the best ways to work through the details of a BIA?






34. What is the difference between preventive mechanisms and recovery strategies?






35. Business Impact Analysis (BIA)






36. Disk Duplexing






37. Simulation Test






38. How should a team break down recovery strategies?






39. What are some reasons why BCPs become outdated?


40. Reciprocal Agreement (Mutual Aid)






41. IT Contingency Plan






42. How can an organization keep the BCP up to date?






43. What is the main reason to develop Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans?


44. Who should be involved in the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans? In what part of the process?






45. Synchronous Replication






46. Once the project plan is completed - what should be done before further steps are taken?






47. At what point can a company have real confidence in a developed plan?






48. Where does the Recovery Time Objective sit on a chart that keeps track of cost and time?






49. Electronic Vaulting


50. Parallel Test