Backup and Disaster Recovery Quiz

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Quiz covering Design for Backup and Disaster Recovery

What you'll be asked

  1. Which metric defines the maximum tolerable period of time that data can be lost from an IT service due to a major incident?
  2. A company requires its critical database to be available in a secondary region with near-zero RTO and RPO. Which disaster recovery strategy should be implemented?
  3. When designing a backup strategy, why is it recommended to follow the 3-2-1 rule?
  4. Which of the following describes the 'Pilot Light' disaster recovery pattern?
  5. You are managing a system with a strict Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes. During a disaster simulation, your automated failover script fails to reconfigure DNS records, causing the recovery to take 45 minutes. What is the most critical design flaw?

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