Professional Documents
Culture Documents
9781285060422
Chapter 4 Solutions
Review Questions
2. During the early phases of a disaster recovery project, the project team needs to identify the
disaster scenarios that can jeopardize the ongoing viability of the organization.
b. A threat analysis
c. A walkthrough test
d. A failover test
c. Senior management
a. The maximum length of time that a business process will be unavailable during a
disaster
d. The maximum period of time that a business can tolerate downtime during a disaster
a. The maximum length of time that a business process will be unavailable during a disaster
d. The maximum point in time that a business can tolerate downtime during a disaster
7. Because of limited resources, Company A cannot develop disaster recovery plans for all of its
processes. What should Company A use to determine which processes require recovery plans?
b. Critical systems
d. Personnel
10. Over a period of several years, an organization has exceeded the capacity of its emergency
c. Purchase an additional generator so that the old and new generators together will generate
enough power
CISSP Guide to Security Essentials, 2nd Edition Solutions 4 – 4
11. An organization is experiencing a large number of spikes, surges, and noise on its incoming
a. An electric generator
c. A line conditioner
12. An organization has just completed development of a disaster recovery plan. The first test of
a. Parallel
b. Simulation
c. Walkthrough
d. Cutover
13. A company has determined that its Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for a critical system is
three minutes. In order to ensure the continuous availability of its critical systems, the
14. A company has determined that its Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for critical systems is
two hours. In order to facilitate a timely resumption of critical applications, the company
should consider:
CISSP Guide to Security Essentials, 2nd Edition Solutions 4 – 5
c. Clustered servers
d. Adverse publicity
Hands-On Projects
Project 4-1
There are several similarities between an individual or family and a small business, with
regards to disaster preparation. The steps used here are common for individuals or
Students are first directed to identify the types of natural disasters that can occur in the
region in which they live. Students can search local and regional government web sites
for information on disaster preparation that will provide valuable clues regarding local
natural disasters.
Students are then directed to document steps for disaster preparation, emergency
Project 4-2
Students are instructed to obtain and analyze an existing contingency planning document
The project directs students to download the Business Pandemic Influenza Planning
Students are asked to express their opinion on whether the plan can be implemented in
their organization. This will help them to understand that there is no ready-made checklist
(of any kind) that will easily work in any organization. However, proper analysis should
reveal the principles behind the plan that can be applied to most organizations.
Case Projects
In this project, students are directed to set recovery objectives for a web-based e-mail
Students need to justify the recovery targets they set. Students should employ
An e-mail application was chosen as the context, as this should be a fairly easily
In this project, students are directed to obtain NIST Special Publication 800-34,
Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems. In general, NIST special
security.
This is a lengthy document; students should not be expected to read it in its entirety, but
The project directs students to discuss whether the standard adequately addresses the
issue of protecting sensitive data during recovery operations. This topic is addressed in
Students are also directed to discuss any technology improvements that have occurred
since the publication of the document. In the May 2010 version of the standard, HA (high
availability) and server clustering technologies are discussed, but there is no mention of
cloud-based services. There may be other advancements in emerging or common use that
are not discussed in the standard. Students may be asked how to extrapolate the guiding
principles in the standard and apply them to available technologies and practices.
Another random document with
no related content on Scribd:
Papuan Blacksmiths.
But to be a blacksmith in ever so rude and humble a way, certain
tools are absolutely necessary; the ambitious one must have a fire, a
hammer, an anvil, and last, though most important of all, a pair of
bellows. A fire he has; for a hammer his old stone-headed club does
service; a handy bit of rock serves as an anvil; it is the bellows which
is the toughest obstacle; and there can be little doubt that many a
grand notion of blacksmithery has been nipped in the bud because
of the projector’s inability to find anything animate or inanimate of so
accommodating a nature as to hold and husband for his
convenience so slippery a thing as the wind. Wonderful are the
devices resorted to, all however more or less tedious and imperfect;
of all sorts and sizes, from the bottle-like bag which the blacksmith
holds under his arm, extracting therefrom a feeble blast as a
Highlander manufactures bag-pipe music, to the elaborate machine
in vogue in certain parts of Polynesia. Take that used by the
Papuans as an example. Here we find two hollow pillars of wood
fixed close together and furnished within a foot of the ground with a
connecting pipe terminating in a nozzle. The interior of the pillars are
perfectly smooth and furnished each with a “sucker” consisting of a
sort of mop of finely-shredded bark; squatting on the top of these
pillars the bellows-blower takes the mop-handles in hand and works
them up and down, causing a tolerably strong and regular blast to
emit from the nozzle.
It is related by the missionary Ellis, that King Pomare entering one
day the shed where an European blacksmith was employed, after
gazing a few minutes at the work, was so transported at what he saw
that he caught up the smith in his arms and, unmindful of the dirt and
perspiration inseparable from his occupation, most cordially
embraced him, and saluted him according to the custom of the
country by touching noses.
Le Vaillant, while travelling in Southern Africa, on one occasion
saw a number of Caffres collected at the bottom of a rocky
eminence, round a huge fire, and drawing from it a pretty large bar of
iron red-hot. Having placed it on the anvil they began to beat it with
stones exceedingly hard and of a shape which rendered them easy
to be managed by the hand. They seemed to perform their work with
much dexterity. But what appeared most extraordinary was their
bellows, which was composed of a sheepskin properly stripped off
and well sewed. Those parts that covered the four feet had been cut
off, and placed in the orifice of the neck was the mouth of a gun-
barrel around which the skin was drawn together and carefully
fastened. The person who used this instrument, holding the pipe to
the fire with one hand, pushed forwards and drew back the extremity
of the skin with the other, and though this fatiguing method did not
always give sufficient intensity to the fire to heat the iron, yet these
poor Cyclops, acquainted with no other means, were never
discouraged. Le Vaillant had great difficulty to make them
comprehend how much superior the bellows of European forges
were to their invention, and being persuaded that the little they might
catch of his explanation would be of no real advantage to them,
resolved to add example to precept and to operate himself in their
presence. Having dispatched one of his people to the camp with
orders to bring the bottoms of two boxes, a piece of a summer kross,
a hoop, a few small nails, a hammer, a saw, and some other tools,
as soon as he returned our traveller formed in a very rude manner a
pair of bellows about as powerful as those generally used in
kitchens. Two pieces of hoop placed in the inside served to keep the
skin always at an equal distance, and a hole made in the under part
gave a readier admittance to the air, a simple method of which they
had no conception, and for want of which they were obliged to waste
a great deal of time in filling their sheepskin. Le Vaillant had no iron
pipe; but as he only meant to make a model he fixed to the extremity
a toothpick case after sawing off one of its ends. He then placed the
instrument on the ground near the fire, and having fixed a forked
stick in the ground, laid across it a kind of lever, which was fastened
to a bit of packthread proceeding from the bellows, and to which was
fixed a piece of lead weighing seven or eight pounds. The Caffres
with great attention beheld all these operations, and evinced the
utmost anxiety to discover what would be the result; but they could
not restrain their acclamations when they saw our traveller by a few
easy motions and with one hand give their fire the greatest activity
by the velocity with which he made his machine draw in and again
force out the air. Putting some pieces of iron into the fire he made
them in a few minutes red-hot which they undoubtedly could not
have done in half an hour. This specimen of his skill raised their
astonishment to the highest pitch: they were almost convulsed and
thrown into a delirium. They danced and capered around the
bellows, each tried them in turn, and they clapped their hands the
better to testify their joy. They begged him to make them a present of
this wonderful machine and seemed to wait for his answer with
impatience, not imagining that he would readily give up so valuable a
piece of furniture. To their extreme satisfaction he granted their
request, and they undoubtedly yet preserve a remembrance of that
stranger who first supplied them with the most essential instrument
of metallurgy.
PART X
INCIDENTS OF PERSONAL PERIL AND DISCOMFORT OF TRAVELLERS AND
EXPLORERS.
CHAPTER XXV.
A night’s lodging at Brass—Delightful bedfellows—Sleeping out on the
Gambia—“Voices of the Night”—Lodging “up a tree”—Half a cigar
for supper—The “leafy couch” abandoned—The bright side of the
picture—Dr. Livingstone no washerwoman—An alarming
“camping out” incident—The terrible tsetse—The camp in the
wilderness—The privileges and perquisites of a Pagazi—No
finery worn on the road—Recreation on the march—Daily life of
an Eastern African—His sports and pastimes—Approaching a
cannibal shore.