Question: 1
An advantage of the use of hot sites as a backup alternative is that:
Question: 2
Which of the following is a practice that should be incorporated into the plan for testing disaster recovery procedures?
Question: 3
Disaster recovery planning (DRP) addresses the:
Question: 4
An IS auditor conducting a review of disaster recovery planning (DRP) at a financial
processing organization has discovered the following:
The existing disaster recovery plan was compiled two years earlier by a systems analyst in the organization's IT department using transaction flow projections from the operations department.
The plan was presented to the deputy CEO for approval and formal issue, but it is still awaiting their attention.
The plan has never been updated, tested or circulated to key management and staff, though interviews show that each would know what action to take for its area in the event of a disruptive incident.
The IS auditor's report should recommend that:
Question: 5
An IS auditor conducting a review of disaster recovery planning (DRP) at a financial processing organization has discovered the following:
The existing disaster recovery plan was compiled two years earlier by a systems analyst in the organization's IT department using transaction flow projections from the operations department.
The plan was presented to the deputy CEO for approval and formal issue, but it is still awaiting his/her attention.
The plan has never been updated, tested or circulated to key management and staff, though interviews show that each would know what action to take for its area in the event of a disruptive incident.
The basis of an organization's disaster recovery plan is to reestablish live processing at an alternative site where a similar, but not identical, hardware configuration is already established. An IS auditor should:
