Resiliency — Quiz

Question 1 of 6

A company has a spare web server in a storage closet. When the primary web server fails, an administrator must locate the spare, install it in the rack, restore the configuration, and bring it online — a process that takes 90 minutes. Which statement BEST describes this architecture?

A. This is high availability because a spare server exists B. This is redundancy but NOT high availability — the 90-minute restoration window means availability is not maintained during the switchover C. This is a cold site because the spare server was not previously configured D. This is load balancing because the spare server will take over the primary's load

Question 2 of 6

An organization needs a disaster recovery site that can resume operations immediately after a disaster is declared. The site must contain all hardware and have data continuously replicated from the primary. The organization is willing to pay significantly for this capability. Which type of recovery site BEST meets these requirements?

A. Cold site — provides the most cost-effective option for rapid recovery B. Warm site — partial hardware and some data synchronization meets the requirement C. Hot site — fully equipped, continuously updated, and immediately operational on failover D. Geographic dispersion — distributing data across multiple locations provides immediate availability

Question 3 of 6

A load balancer distributes web requests across four backend servers. One server stops responding. What does the load balancer do?

A. The load balancer waits for the server to recover before resuming normal distribution B. The load balancer notifies the cluster software to redistribute the failed server's data to the remaining nodes C. The load balancer detects the failure via health checks, removes the failed server from the pool, and redistributes its traffic across the remaining healthy servers D. The load balancer shuts down all servers and restarts them to restore synchronization

Question 4 of 6

An organization's primary data center is in Miami, Florida. Their disaster recovery site is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida — 30 miles away. A hurricane makes landfall affecting the entire South Florida region. Which resiliency principle has been violated?

A. Platform diversity — different operating systems should have been used at each site B. Geographic dispersion — the recovery site must be far enough from the primary that a single regional disaster cannot affect both simultaneously C. COOP — manual procedures should have been documented for use during the hurricane D. High availability — both sites should have been running simultaneously in an active/active configuration

Question 5 of 6

A security team discovers a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting the Windows kernel that allows unauthenticated remote code execution. The organization runs Windows on all servers. An organization that had implemented platform diversity would have what advantage in this scenario?

A. The organization's Windows systems would be immune to the vulnerability because diversity prevents vulnerabilities from applying B. The organization's non-Windows systems (Linux, macOS) would be unaffected by this Windows-specific vulnerability, limiting the vulnerability's blast radius and maintaining partial operations during the patching window C. Platform diversity automatically patches vulnerabilities across all systems simultaneously D. The organization would need fewer patches because platform diversity reduces the total number of vulnerabilities in any system

Question 6 of 6

A retail store's point-of-sale systems and payment processing network have all gone offline. The store has no COOP procedures documented. Which statement BEST describes the immediate outcome for the store?

A. The store can continue operations normally because payment systems are not required for all transactions B. The store will likely be unable to process transactions and may have to close, because no manual alternative procedures exist and staff do not know how to proceed without the technology C. The store's COOP plan automatically activates its backup procedures D. The store will automatically failover to a secondary payment processing network

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1. A financial institution operates two data centers simultaneously. Both handle real production transactions at all times. When one data center experiences a power failure, the other continues serving all customers without any service interruption — it was already handling half the load and simply absorbs the remainder

2. An organization rents a facility in another state that has rack space and basic network connectivity, but no servers or data currently installed. In the event of a disaster, they plan to transport servers from a secondary storage location, restore data from cloud backups, and have the site operational within 12 hours

3. A company distributes critical data and services across both AWS and Microsoft Azure, so that if one cloud provider experiences a major outage, the other provider's services remain fully operational

4. A hospital creates paper forms for manual patient registration, printed directories with all department phone numbers, and a binder of procedures for manually routing medication orders — all stored physically at nursing stations — to be used if electronic systems become unavailable

1. 2. 3. 4.

A. Active/Active High Availability

B. Warm Site

C. Multi-Cloud

D. COOP

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