Peter, the system administrator, is reviewing his disaster recovery plans. He wishes to limit the downtime in the event of a disaster, but does not have the budget approval to implement or maintain an offsite location that ensures 99.99% availability. Which of the following would be Peter’s BEST option?
A. Use hardware already at an offsite location and configure it to be quickly utilized. B. Move the servers and data to another part of the company’s main campus from the server room. C. Retain data back-ups on the main campus and establish redundant servers in a virtual environment. D. Move the data back-ups to the offsite location, but retain the hardware on the main campus for redundancy.
Answer: A
Explanation: A warm site provides some of the capabilities of a hot site, but it requires the customer to do more work to become operational. Warm sites provide computer systems and compatible media capabilities. If a warm site is used, administrators and other staff will need to install and configure systems to resume operations. For most organizations, a warm site could be a remote office, a leased facility, or another organization with which yours has a reciprocal agreement. Warm sites may be for your exclusive use, but they don’t have to be. A warm site requires more advanced planning, testing, and access to media for system recovery. Warm sites represent a compromise between a hot site, which is very expensive, and a cold site, which isn’t preconfigured.
A company is selecting a fire suppression system for their new datacenter and wants to minimize the IT system recovery period in the event of a fire. Which of the following is the best choice for the fire suppression system?
A. Portable extinguishers B. Wet Pipe C. Clean Gas D. Dry Pipe
A technician is called onsite to solve a network connection error. Upon arrival, the technician observes a message on the screen stating there is no boot drive found. Which of the following steps should the technician take NEXT?
A. Repair the boot up sequence using recovery console. B. Restart the system, booting from a system recovery disk. C. Restart the system to verify the proper boot sequence. D. Inform the customer the hard drive has crashed and replace the drive.
A user recently installed a new video driver on a PC but upon boot Windows will not start. Which of the following is the BEST option to correct the issue?
A. Automated system recovery B. Emergency repair disks C. FIXBOOT D. Safe mode
A user updates the video driver on the computer and it requests a restart after installation. The computer never gets past the loading Windows page without rebooting. Which of the following should the technician use to resolve this issue without losing any vital files or programs?
A. Emergency Repair Disk B. Restore from OEM image C. System Recovery D. Restore from backup
A user can no longer launch their word processing program. The program worked fine yesterday. Which of the following options could BEST be used to fix the word processing program?
A. Safe Mode B. Automated System Recovery C. Last Known Good Configuration D. System Restore