CISA Practice Question: Information Systems Operations and Business Resilience
An IT auditor is reviewing backup procedures. The organization performs daily full backups and retains them for 30 days. Additionally, weekly backups are retained for 12 months. Which of the following is the MOST likely risk associated with this backup strategy?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
Excessive storage consumption and longer backup windows
Full backups every day consume large amounts of storage and time; incremental backups are more efficient.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Backup data may not be recoverable
Why it's wrong here
Full backups are recoverable.
- ✗
Inability to meet recovery point objectives
Why it's wrong here
Daily full backups can meet RPO.
- ✗
Backup encryption may be weak
Why it's wrong here
Not directly related to backup frequency.
- ✓
Excessive storage consumption and longer backup windows
Why this is correct
Daily full backups are inefficient.
Go deeper
Related to this question
About these practice questions
This CISA question is part of Courseiva's 995-question bank — original exam-style content with full explanations and wrong-answer analysis, never real exam questions or exam dumps. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This CISA practice question is part of Courseiva's free ISACA certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the CISA exam.