ISC2 CC Business Continuity, DR & Incident Response Practice Question
An organization's backup strategy includes daily full backups. However, recovery tests show that restoring from tape takes 6 hours longer than expected. What is the most likely cause?
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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Improperly documented recovery procedures
Improperly documented recovery procedures can lead to incorrect steps or delays during restoration, which is a common cause of extended recovery times.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Improperly documented recovery procedures
Why this is correct
Poor documentation can cause steps to be missed or performed incorrectly, leading to delays.
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Tape drive failure
Why it's wrong here
Tape drive failure would cause a complete failure, not just a delay.
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Inadequate storage capacity
Why it's wrong here
Inadequate storage would cause failure, not just delay.
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Insufficient bandwidth
Why it's wrong here
Bandwidth is not relevant to tape-based recovery.
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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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