ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
A company has a reciprocal agreement with another organization for disaster recovery. During a major outage, the company attempts to activate the agreement but finds that the partner's facility is also impacted by the same disaster. This scenario highlights a primary disadvantage of which recovery 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
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Reciprocal agreement
Reciprocal agreements depend on the partner not being affected by the same disaster. If both are impacted, the agreement fails.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Cold site
Why it's wrong here
Cold site is dedicated space.
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Warm site
Why it's wrong here
Warm site is also a dedicated facility.
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Reciprocal agreement
Why this is correct
Reciprocal agreements rely on the partner's availability, which may be compromised in a widespread disaster.
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Hot site
Why it's wrong here
Hot site is a dedicated facility, not dependent on another organization.
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Key term
Organization
An Organization is a top-level container in Google Cloud that represents your company or entities and serves as the root node for all your cloud resources, policies, and access control.
Key term
Recovery
Recovery is the process of restoring systems, data, and operations after a security incident, failure, or disaster to return to normal functioning.
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