Emergency Management Exam Review
Course Introduction
Emergency Management is an interdisciplinary course that explores strategies, systems, and practices for effectively preparing for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies and disasters. Students will examine the roles of government agencies, non-profits, and private organizations in managing natural and man-made hazards, with a focus on risk assessment, mitigation planning, resource coordination, and crisis communication. The course integrates case studies and real-world scenarios to develop critical thinking and leadership skills essential for effective incident command and disaster resilience in communities.
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Disaster Recovery Principles and Practices 1st Edition by April Wells
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Disaster Recovery
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Q1) Business Continuity Planning is interested in __________ disasters if possible.
A)avoiding
B)recognizing
C)reacting to
D)planning
Answer: A
Q2) Electrical failure can lead to __________ failure,which in turn can lead to software failure.
Answer: hardware
Q3) In the event of a major disaster,the first goal of the business is to maintain the __________ sustainable level of services for the organization.
Answer: minimal
Q4) What is one of the leading causes of system loss seen by organizations?
A)Lack of a sprinkler system
B)Lack of security in a computer system
C)Lack of a tornado shelter
D)Lack of qualified employees
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Preparing to Develop the Disaster Recovery Plan
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Q1) The __________ will report to the disaster recovery team on the information in and processes relevant for their own particular department.
Answer: departmental recovery team
Q2) Computer Backup Team
A)arranges for outsourcing of security issues
B)maintains proper backup procedures
C)recovers the hardware and the software installations
D)reconfigures software to hardware
E)carries on business logically
Answer: B
Q3) It is often difficult to get complete management buy-in to a disaster recovery plan because the ______________________ associated with the cost of developing the plan and securing the necessary resources is rarely realized.
Answer: return on investment
Q4) Three basic necessities need to be taken care of when facing a disaster situation: water service,_________,and basic cleaning.These are the responsibility of the facilities support team.
Answer: refuse removal
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Chapter 3: Assessing Risk and Impact
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Q1) Functions need to be assessed by problems that their __________ will cause to the everyday operations of the business.
Answer: loss
Q2) Second
A)assess hazards
B)implement controls
C)test and evaluate
D)identify hazards
E)develop controls and make risk decisions
Answer: A
Q3) Business impact
A)magnitude of the potential loss
B)result of judging the worth or value of something or someone
C)the possibility of suffering harm or loss because of an event
Answer: A
Q4) Realistic ramifications and weights should be assigned to all events and potential
Answer: outcomes
Q5) A(n)__________ is anything that can cause harm.
Answer: hazard
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Chapter 4: Prioritizing Systems and Functions for Recovery
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Q1) What is as important as generating an organization's assets?
A)accounting for an organization's assets
B)evaluating an organization's assets
C)inventorying an organization's assets
D)protecting an organization's assets
Q2) One function that is often overlooked during recovery is __________.
A)payroll
B)disaster assessment
C)accounts receivable
D)backup
Q3) It is almost always the case that no system resides in a(n)__________.
Q4) Not every "event" impacting an organization can be considered a(n)__________.
Q5) Tier ________ is a set of functions and processes that an organization can do without for more than a week to 10 days.
Q6) Tier 3 systems,processes,and functions are those that are __________ and can be recovered in the days or weeks following the disaster.
Q7) The disaster recovery team must consider the impact from any __________ in the data that may occur between the time of the backup and the end of local processing.
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Chapter 5: Identify Data Storage and Recovery Sites
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Q1) Restoring an entire tape is __________ labor and time intensive than recovering a single deleted file.
Q2) One of the most __________ things in a disaster recovery plan and in the selection of the disaster recovery site location selection is the ability to acquire office supplies.
A)overworked
B)overlooked
C)obvious
D)confusing
Q3) Travel cost may be even more of a consideration than the __________ of the contracted recovery site.
Q4) A(n)__________ is more formalized and longer lasting than the reciprocal agreement.
Q5) Any agreement should,as a part of the services provided,allow your organization to __________ your disaster recovery plan.
A)test
B)develop
C)monitor
D)All of the above
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Chapter 6: Developing Plans, Procedures, and Relationships
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Q1) No matter how many scenarios and situations may be included,it is likely that one or more will be__________.
Q2) It is often the case that software is licensed for a particular __________ configuration.
Q3) What is the role of the owner of the disaster recovery document?
A)ultimately responsible for the maintenance of the document
B)oversees the changes and change control
C)see to it that all pieces of the document are kept in sync
D)all of the above
Q4) Which backups are particularly good for organizations that have a significant amount of data,much of which remains unchanged?
A)full backups
B)incremental backups
C)split-mirror backups
D)none of the above
Q5) Not only do you need to make plans for you upstream partners,you also need to take into account your downstream relationships,which are your __________.
Q6) It is important to remember that the recovery plan is a(n)__________ document.
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Chapter 7: Developing Procedures for Special Circumstances
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Q1) Which of the following can put an organization at risk?
A)Backups are put in place and are taken routinely.
B)Security measures are put in place and followed.
C)SLAs are in place.
D)Shortcuts are taken.
Q2) What is often left out of support contracts related to the recovery site?
A)The SLAs
B)The eventuality of a second disaster occurring at the recovery site
C)The cost of using the recovery site
D)The frequency of disaster drills
Q3) It is possible to word __________ in such a way as to make sure that the organization is covered in the eventuality that an emergency within an emergency should present itself.
Q4) In the ideal situation,who should be able to work on the recovery team?
A)Employees well trained in disaster recovery
B)The employees most familiar with the system being restored
C)Anyone that is available to be drafted into the position
D)Outside personnel contracted for this purpose
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Q5) It is common to assume that because there are __________ in place,the recovery will go smoothly because the hardware is compatible.
Chapter 8: Testing the Disaster Recovery Plan
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Q1) The __________will provide the organization with the assurance that all necessary steps are included in the disaster recovery plan
A)planning stage
B)test
C)actual disaster recovery
D)backups
Q2) After recovery procedures and criteria have been completed a structured _________ test should be performed.
A)full interruption
B)simulation
C)walk-through
D)parallel
Q3) Realistic __________ should be assigned to each step of the plan.
A)backups
B)software
C)stakeholders
D)time limits
Q4) Of particular importance in disaster recovery testing is performing a(n)__________ of the success and failure of the disaster recovery test.
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Chapter 9: Continued Assessment of Needs, Threats, and Solutions
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Q1) Once you discover a threat at the recovery site which of the following is important to analyze?
A)Exploitable
B)Reproducible
C)Users/Systems Affected
D)Discoverable
Q2) Which of the following is a tool that not only exposes threats to an organization,but points out strengths as well?
A)Denial of Service
B)SWOT analysis
C)Threat tree
D)Repudiation
Q3) What is the next vital step after a recovery test?
A)Decide where to place blame on the things that went wrong.
B)Meet as a team and discuss lessons learned.
C)Determine the order in which backups need to be restored.
D)All of the above.
Q4) It is important,before the team has too long of a period of downtime to forget,that they meet at least once to discuss what was done well,what was done poorly,and what was _________
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