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What is the primary purpose of effective risk assessments?
What is the primary purpose of effective risk assessments?
- To establish the likelihood of a ransomware event
- To determine the cost of revenue losses and mitigation efforts
- To measure the up-front and ongoing costs of backups
- To assess how far the IT infrastructure can be stretched before breaking (correct)
Why is it important to understand the interdependence of IT systems?
Why is it important to understand the interdependence of IT systems?
- To measure the up-front and ongoing costs of backups
- To determine the likelihood of being hit by a ransomware event
- To calculate the cost of revenue losses and mitigation efforts
- To assess the impact of public-facing web application downtime on back-end systems (correct)
What is a potential consequence of not having enough engineers available for covering emergencies?
What is a potential consequence of not having enough engineers available for covering emergencies?
- Ransomware attacks on business servers
- System hardening efforts becoming ineffective
- Lowering the overall defense plan effectiveness
- Increased legal liabilities and expensive lawsuits (correct)
Why is it important to consider at what point a major outage could threaten the ongoing viability of operations?
Why is it important to consider at what point a major outage could threaten the ongoing viability of operations?
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What does the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) measure?
What does the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) measure?
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Why is having an RTO longer than the RPO a problem?
Why is having an RTO longer than the RPO a problem?
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What does Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) primarily depend on?
What does Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) primarily depend on?
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What is the purpose of determining the Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?
What is the purpose of determining the Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?
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What does Recovery Point Objective (RPO) assess?
What does Recovery Point Objective (RPO) assess?
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Why is it important for an organization's RTO to be less than its RPO?
Why is it important for an organization's RTO to be less than its RPO?
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