Which of the following represents the GREATEST risk created by a reciprocal agreement for disaster recovery
made between two companies?

Facilitating telecommunications continuity by providing redundant combinations of local carrier T-1 lines,
microwaves and/or coaxial cables to access the local communication loop:

A large chain of shops with electronic funds transfer (EFT) at point-of-sale devices has a central
communications processor for connecting to the banking network. Which of the following is the BEST disaster
recovery plan for the communications processor?

The MAIN purpose for periodically testing offsite facilities is to:

Disaster recovery planning (DRP) for a company’s computer system usually focuses on:

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:

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:

Disaster recovery planning (DRP) addresses the:

Which of the following is a practice that should be incorporated into the plan for testing disaster recovery
procedures?

An advantage of the use of hot sites as a backup alternative is that: