Scribd
Upload
55 views

Lap 9

1. The document provides an assessment worksheet for a lab on developing disaster recovery backup procedures and recovery instructions. It asks students to apply concepts of documenting backup procedures and recovery instructions to their own data. 2. The worksheet contains 15 questions about backup procedures, recovery time objectives (RTO), achieving low RTO, and steps to streamline recovery processes. It asks students to time their recovery of a specific file to test their documented instructions. 3. Having documented, tested backup and recovery procedures is important for achieving reliable recovery times and restoring systems efficiently in the event of an outage or disaster.

Uploaded by

Trần Mỹ Linh
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
55 views

Lap 9

1. The document provides an assessment worksheet for a lab on developing disaster recovery backup procedures and recovery instructions. It asks students to apply concepts of documenting backup procedures and recovery instructions to their own data. 2. The worksheet contains 15 questions about backup procedures, recovery time objectives (RTO), achieving low RTO, and steps to streamline recovery processes. It asks students to time their recovery of a specific file to test their documented instructions. 3. Having documented, tested backup and recovery procedures is important for achieving reliable recovery times and restoring systems efficiently in the event of an outage or disaster.

Uploaded by

Trần Mỹ Linh
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Lab #9: Assessment Worksheet

Develop Disaster Recovery Back-up Procedures and Recovery Instruction

Course Name:
________________________________________________________________
__
Student Name:
________________________________________________________________
_
Instructor Name:
________________________________________________________________
Lab Due Date:
________________________________________________________________
__

Overview
The most important task for a business continuity and disaster recovery plan is
to document all identified mission critical IT systems, applications, and data
recovery procedures. Fast recovery times for IT systems and applications are
achievable with efficient and accurate recovery instructions. This lab has the
students apply the same concepts of disaster recovery back-up procedures and
recovery instructions to their own data

Lab Assessment Questions

1. How does documented back-up and recovery procedures help achieve RTO?
By having effective backup and recovery procedures you should have the
necessary resources to restore systems from backups and a repeatable process
that is known to succeed in achieving RTO. By documenting and implementing
backup and recovery procedures, the process for recovery is much more
efficient, helping with the time portion of RTO.
2. True or False. To achieve an RTO of 0, you need 100% redundant, hot-stand-
by infrastructure (i.e., IT system, application, and data, etc.).
True
3. What is most important when considering data back-up?
Registry, directories, and imperative operating data as well as licensing.
4. What is most important when considering data recovery?
Data recovery working in a timely manner (fast).
5. What are the risks of using your external e-mail box as a back-up and data
storage solution?
First, you are at the mercy of the provider. If it is a large recovery you may not
be able to have internet access to download it. File corruption could be an issue
as well as back up size allowable for email.
6. Identify the Total Amount of Time Required to Recover and Install the Lab
#9 Assessment Worksheets on Your Student VM Hard Drive and open the file
in Microsoft Word to verify integrity. {Insert your timed RTO using your
computer clock – following your documented instructions and steps}.
30 minutes
7. Did you achieve your RTO? What steps and procedures can you implement
to help drive RTO even lower? I’m assuming from the lab, steps that would be
with better equipment, a Hot-Site and lots of money.
8. What are some recommendations for lowering the RTO for retrieval and
access to the back-up data file?
Have a good recovery system; the recovery software could be as low as 15min.
with some products. Making sure they are available and tested regularly.
9. If you drive RTO lower what must you do to streamline the procedure?
Test, Test and test. Practice makes perfect.
10. Why is documenting and testing critical to achieve a defined RTO? To know
that and for those who proceed in that position, these test were completed
and has been done before. A history will be formed and if ever a problem
arises thathas before, records will save time.
11. Why is it a best practice for an organization to document its back-up and
recovery steps for DR? To know that and for those who proceed in that
position, these test were completed and has been done before. A history will
be formed and if ever a problem arises that has before, records will save time.
12. What can you do to cut down on the recovery time for accessing, copying,
and recovering your Lab #1 – Lab #8 individual worksheets to help achieve the
RTO?
Prioritize your operations
Back up data more frequently
Implement redundant systems
Use block recovery solutions
Move your operations to the cloud

13. What will encryption of a disk or data in storage do to the RTO definition
when attempting to retrieve and recover clear-text data for production use?
Will take a bit more time to decrypt and retrieve the data before it can be
used.
14. How many total steps did your back-up and recovery procedures consist of
for this Lab exercise? Are there any that can be combined or streamlined? Not
sure. But the fewer steps you have and easier the steps are, the less confusion
and fewer mistakes will happen and that will save time on recovery, as well as
a good recovery system.
15. If the individual accessing the system for DR purposes was not familiar with
the IT system and required system administrator login credentials, what
additional step is required in the recovery phase?
Finding the secured documents that have all the information and steps needed
to recover.

You might also like