Emergency Management in IT Test
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Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth examination of emergency management principles as they pertain to information technology (IT) environments. Students will explore risk assessment, disaster recovery planning, business continuity strategies, and frameworks for responding to IT-specific emergencies such as cyberattacks, data breaches, and system failures. Emphasis is placed on developing the skills necessary to design, implement, and evaluate emergency response and recovery plans within organizations, ensuring minimal disruption to critical IT services. Through case studies and hands-on exercises, learners will acquire practical knowledge for managing and mitigating the impact of IT emergencies in both public and private sector contexts.
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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) Which of the following is an example of a lack of computer security?
A)Chemical spill
B)Employee death
C)Spam
D)Air conditioning failure
Answer: C
Q2) 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
Q3) Any disaster,whether large or small,will have a __________ effect through the entire organization.
A)controlled
B)known
C)positive
D)ripple
Answer: D
Q4) The FEMA web site assists you in determining your __________ for a given situation.
Answer: risk
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Chapter 2: Preparing to Develop the Disaster Recovery Plan
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Q1) Which two disaster recovery sub-teams are likely to be manned by the same people?
A)Facilities Support Team/Damage Assessment Team
B)Departmental Recovery Team/Business Recovery Team
C)Logistics Support Team/ Facilities Support Team
D)Computer Backup Team/Computer Recovery Ream
Answer: D
Q2) Computer Operations Coordinator
A)re-creates production schedules for application systems
B)handles the business operations of the organization
C)responsible for leading the team towards its goal
D)ascertains the status of files and database objects
E)sets up interfaces between the organizational platforms
F)diagnoses and corrects network outages
G)schedules construction work
Answer: A
Q3) The input the user support team provides allows planning for how to __________ users in a disaster situation.
Answer: support
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Chapter 3: Assessing Risk and Impact
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Q1) Business Impact
A)role that each area in the organization plays
B)addresses the organization from the perspective of perceived threats
C)the level of harm that may occur from any given threat or risk
D)a contract that spells out the terms of service that will be provided
Answer: C
Q2) Why must backups be tested?
A)Without knowing that they can be recovered,backups are useless
B)To determine the cost if they are needed during a disaster recovery
C)To determine if they are needed
D)All of the above
Answer: A
Q3) In the disaster recovery plan,each response should detail the use of resources and assign only those resources needed to _________ the problem.
A)assess
B)quantify
C)delegate
D)fix
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Prioritizing Systems and Functions for Recovery
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Q1) Who helps you determine what will go into each tier,or what might not go into any tier at all?
A)The disaster recovery planning team
B)FEMA
C)Asset tracking software team
D)Subject matter experts
Q2) What will likely result in some tier 2 and tier 3 systems moving from one tier to the other?
A)Prioritizing disaster recovery
B)Identifying functions and processes
C)Dependency analysis
D)Identifying critical assets
Q3) Not every "event" impacting an organization can be considered a(n)__________.
Q4) It is a(n)__________ step in the disaster planning process to gather information on all of the company's assets.
A)vital last
B)vital early
C)unnecessary
D)low priority
Q5) It is almost always the case that no system resides in a(n)__________.
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Chapter 5: Identify Data Storage and Recovery Sites
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Q1) Which of the following is more likely to be overlooked by the disaster recovery planning team?
A)hardware
B)data
C)software
D)backups
Q2) Travel cost may be even more of a consideration than the __________ of the contracted recovery site.
Q3) Which of the following is an appropriate method for backing up your data?
A)online
B)hard disk
C)tape
D)All of the above
Q4) The restore time is __________ for tape than for disk-stored recovery.
A)shorter
B)longer
C)safer
D)more risky
Q5) Restoring an entire tape is __________ labor and time intensive than recovering a single deleted file.
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Chapter 6: Developing Plans, Procedures, and Relationships
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Q1) What is the most important thing that the disaster recovery team leader needs to do once a disaster is declared?
A)to define and assign roles and responsibilities as the players arrive at the recovery site
B)plan for the disaster
C)make sure all software licensing agreements are in place
D)all of the above
Q2) Which backup allows very large amounts of data to be backed up in a matter of seconds or just a few minutes?
A)full backups
B)incremental backups
C)split-mirror backups
D)none of the above
Q3) Which of the following should be included in the list of contacts in a disaster recovery plan?
A)computer vendor
B)emergency services
C)customers
D)all of the above
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Chapter 7: Developing Procedures for Special Circumstances
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Q1) 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
Q2) How are gaps in a recovery plan typically found?
A)During a declared disaster
B)Observing how other businesses react to a disaster
C)In the cycle of planning,backing up,testing recovery,and restarting the cycle
D)All of the above
Q3) It is important to have a(n)_________ for just about any contingency that might arise in an organization.
Q4) Which of the following is the best test scenario?
A)The recovery team is notified one week in advance of a disaster drill.
B)The recovery team is not sure if the situation is a drill or an actual disaster.
C)The recovery team is awakened in the middle of the night to initiate a disaster drill.
D)The recovery team knows the dates of disaster drills which are scheduled twice a year.
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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) It is vital to the organization and the success of the disaster recovery plan that the plan be thoroughly tested on a(n)__________ basis.
A)weekly
B)monthly
C)annual
D)bi-annual
Q3) The disaster recovery test needs to have a set of __________so everyone knows whether the plan and the team have passed.
Q4) The smaller the company the __________ likely it will be that change control will be applied to the disaster recovery document when new software or hardware is acquired or retired.
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Chapter 9: Continued Assessment of Needs, Threats, and Solutions
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Q1) 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
Q2) __________ occurs when the spoofer sets up a redirection of a domain name from its intended IP address destination to an alternative destination in order to gain access to sensitive information.
A)Spoofing
B)Pharming
C)Tampering
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.
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