What is the primary reason for having disaster recovery backups?
A. To restore data from an alternate site due to data loss at a primary site
B. To restore data when data loss or logical corruptions occur during routine processing
C. To restore data that was archived for regulatory compliance
D. To restore data when data loss occurs due to minor hardware component failures
A business has a recovery point objective (RPO) of nine hours. What does this RPO mean in the event of a disaster?
A. No more than nine hours of production data can be lost
B. Restore from backup must occur within nine hours
C. Production must be resumed within nine hours
D. A backup copy of the production data must be obtained within nine hours
What is a benefit of deploying a separate storage node in the backup environment?
A. Reduced number of backups
B. Increased media utilization
C. Improved security and access control
D. Consolidate backup servers
Which RAID level combines data redundancy, performance and shorter rebuild times?
A. RAID 6
B. RAID 1
C. RAID 1+0
D. RAID 0+1
A backup administrator wants to leverage the replication feature available on the storage array as an alternate source for backups. What is an advantage of this approach?
A. Improves RPO
B. Enables backups to be performed without a storage node
C. Allows off-host backups to be performed
D. Decreases storage utilization
A customer wants to run backups for unstructured client data where the level of granularity can be sacrificed for better performance. Which method for backing up the data best fits this situation?
A. Raw device dump
B. Cold backup
C. File copy
D. Hot backup
In a backup and recovery environment, what is a benefit of sending multiple streams of backup data to physical tape?
A. Improved recovery point objective
B. Reduced recovery time objective
C. Improved write performance
D. Improved read performance
A customer wants to know how much memory will be required for a storage node to provide the minimal swapping or paging during the backup process. What should be considered when deciding the amount of memory necessary for the storage node?
A. Other active applications
B. Available CPU resources
C. Network interface frame size
D. Operating systems of backup clients
How is client backup data viewed in cloud storage for backup and recovery?
A. Object
B. File
C. Block
D. Page
How can you ensure that backup data stored in tapes offsite can be read only by authorized parties?
A. Compress the data using the LZO algorithm
B. Encrypt the data using a secure encryption key
C. Set permissions on the save sets on the volumes
D. Transfer data over a secure, internal WAN