Business Continuity Quiz

What is the purpose of Business Continuity in cloud services?

• To limit the availability of cloud services

• To ensure continuous availability of cloud services in the event of failure

• To increase the complexity of cloud infrastructure

• To reduce the cost of cloud services

What does Service availability (%) = Agreed service time – Downtime / Agreed service time represent?

• The agreed service time period

• The ability of a cloud service to perform its agreed function according to business requirements

• The impact of cloud service unavailability

• The cost of unavailability of services

What are the causes of Cloud Service Unavailability?

• User error, Security breach, Power outage

• Network optimization, Data center expansion, Service overloading

• Application failure, Data loss, Infrastructure component failure

• Software updates, Hardware upgrades, Network maintenance

What is the impact of Cloud Service Unavailability?

• Outages do not cost millions of dollars per hour

• Unavailability of service does not affect reputation

• Loss of revenue is not a concern

• Cost of unavailability of services is greater than ever

What are the key design strategies for application resiliency in cloud computing?

• Manual failover, Data loss prevention, Network segmentation

• Application isolation, Data encryption, Resource over-provisioning

• Single point of failure, Network congestion, Data duplication

• Graceful degradation of application functionality, Retry logic in application code, Persistent application state model

What is the purpose of VMware Site Recovery Manager?

• To automate both failover and failback process

• To make disaster recovery rapid, reliable, and manageable

• To create a live shadow instance of a VM

• To provide continuous availability for application in the event of server failure

What is the purpose of EMC Avamar in backup and deduplication?

• To create a live shadow instance of a VM

• To provide a variety of options for backup, including guest OS-level backup and image-level backup

• To centralize, automate, and accelerate data backup and recovery

• To offload deduplication process from the backup client

What is the purpose of TimeFinder in EMC VMAX array-based local replication software?

• To create a pointer-based virtual copy and full-volume mirror of the source

• To create a live shadow instance of a VM

• To provide continuous availability for application in the event of server failure

• To automate both failover and failback process

What is the purpose of Remote Replication: Synchronous?

• To ensure that the source and the replica have identical data at all times

• To create a live shadow instance of a VM

• To provide continuous availability for application in the event of server failure

• To automate both failover and failback process

What is the purpose of Continuous Data Protection (CDP)?

• To ensure that the source and the replica have identical data at all times

• To automate both failover and failback process

• To create a live shadow instance of a VM

• To provide the ability to restore data to any previous point in time