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What is a typical risk that can be covered by a backup strategy?

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Marked out of a. Accidental loss of user data
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b. Database corruption

c. Hardware failures

d. Natural disasters

e. All of the above.

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: All of the above.

Often, even today, tape-based backup solutions are used for backup. What is their key advantage?

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Marked out of a. Cost e�ectiveness
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b. Speed

c. Fail safety

d. Usability

e. Ergonomics

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: Cost e�ectiveness

True or false? If your hard drive starts failing, it’s best to keep it running as long as possible and try
everything you know to save the data.
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True

False

The correct answer is 'False'.

 In data recovery, often, it can be su�cient to restore the �le allocation table (FAT) of a hard drive.
Where can you �nd it?
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a. It’s located in the system cache.

b. It’s located in the master boot record (MBR).

c. It’s located in the random access memory (RAM).

d. It’s located in the BIOS memory.

e. It’s located in the data backup.

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: It’s located in the master boot record (MBR).

What should you do to include natural disasters as possible risk to be mitigated by your backup
plan?
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a. Buy more storage media.

b. Get more security people on your team.

c. Store data o�-site.

d. Earmark at least one third of your data as expendable.

e. Nothing, because if a natural disaster strikes, there are more important things to worry
about.

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: Store data o�-site.

Your company’s data services are at risk because of a major power outage. What would be good to
have right now?
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a. A Universal Power Saver

b. An Uninterrupted Power Supply

c. A Ubiquitous Positioning System

d. An Unattended Positronic Servant

e. An Upward Polarity Safety

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: An Uninterrupted Power Supply
 You want to run a full backup of a hard drive in one of your company’s computers. How do you best
do that?
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a. You save everything on a pile of �oppy disks.

b. You mark the data that you think are important and save those on a USB drive.

c. You create a mirror image of that hard drive and save it on a reliable storage medium.

d. You save all open documents at least once a day.

e. You rely on the assumption that the company’s commercial insurance will cover any cost
involved with data loss.

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: You create a mirror image of that hard drive and save it on a reliable storage
medium.

What do you call it if you do a database backup while the database is inactive, i.e. not available to
any users?
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a. Iced database backup

b. Cold database backup

c. Dead database backup

d. Hibernated database backup

e. Frozen database backup

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: Cold database backup

You are the database admin of your company. Unfortunately, your data center building is on �re.
However, you took the best possible precautions and you can calm down your boss. Why?
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a. Due to a smart disaster recovery plan, the data are saved on magnetic tape.

b. Disaster recovery plan or not, the data are not that important anyway.

c. Due to a smart disaster recovery plan, you stored a mirror version of the data in another
building across town.

d. Due to a smart disaster recovery plan, you did the latest full backup only a month ago.

e. Due to a smart disaster recovery plan, you have UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply)
installed.

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: Due to a smart disaster recovery plan, you stored a mirror version of the data
in another building across town.
 What is the di�erence between a di�erential backup and an incremental backup?

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Marked out of a. The di�erential backup backs up the di�erence between the incremental and the
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di�erential backup, while the incremental backup backs up the di�erence between the
incremental and the di�erential backup.

b. The di�erential backup and the incremental backup are the same.

c. The di�erential backup helps backup data that are di�cult to back up, while the
incremental backup helps backup data that are increased in size over what is normal
capacity.

d. The di�erential backup backs up the data that are di�erent from the previous full backup,
while the incremental backup backs up the data that are di�erent from the previous
incremental or di�erential backup.

e. The di�erential backup backs up all data, while the incremental backup backs up only some
of the data.

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: The di�erential backup backs up the data that are di�erent from the previous
full backup, while the incremental backup backs up the data that are di�erent from the previous
incremental or di�erential backup.