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Chapter 18 Disaster Recovery Planning

Domain 6 & 7

Written Lab

  1. What are some of the main concerns businesses have when considering adopting a mutual assistance agreement?

    Businesses have three main concerns when considering adopting a mutual assistance agreement, see p.887.

  2. List and explain the five types of disaster recovery tests.

    p.899

    • Read-through tests
    • Structured walk-throughs
    • Simulation tests
    • Parallel tests
    • Full-interruption tests

  3. Explain the differences between the three types of backup strategies discussed in this chapter.

    • Full backups
    • Incremental backups
    • Differential backups

  4. Describe how cloud computing influences disaster recovery programs.

    Cloud computing influences disaster recovery programs in two major ways. First, the cloud provides excellent opportunities for disaster recovery operations, offering on-demand access to technology resources. Second, organizations using the cloud must ensure that they implement disaster recovery capabilities within their cloud environment using controls offered by the cloud service provider, built internally, or offered by third parties.