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Google IT Support Professional Certificate • STUDY MODE
PLANNING FOR DATA RECOVERY
QUESTION 1 OF 7
How can you recover from an unexpected data loss event? Check all that apply. Nice job! If a hard drive or device becomes damaged or fails, you can attempt to recover data using specialized software. If data becomes corrupt or gets deleted, you can also restore the data from backup.
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Write a post-mortem report.B
Recover data from damaged devices.Correct AnswerC
Restore data from backups.Correct AnswerD
Design a disaster recovery plan.QUESTION 2 OF 7
Where is it best to store backups, physically? Yep! Ideally, backups should be stored in multiple physical locations to reduce the risk of a catastrophe causing you to lose your backups. Typically, data would be backed up somewhere locally, and the backups would be replicated and stored off-site.
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On-siteB
Off-siteC
In a safeD
Across multiple locationsCorrect AnswerQUESTION 3 OF 7
Which of these should be included in your backups? Check all that apply. Great work! Critical data for an organization, like firewall configs and relevant databases, should be included in the backup plans.
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Firewall configurationsCorrect AnswerB
A downloads folderC
Family vacation photosD
Sales databasesCorrect AnswerQUESTION 4 OF 7
What's magnetic tape backup media best suited for? That's correct! Magnetic tape media is very cheap, but it's also super slow and inconvenient to retrieve data from. This makes it a good option for archiving old data that won't be needed often.
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Long-term archival dataCorrect AnswerB
Low-latency cached dataC
Cheap backup systemsD
Quick and efficient backupsQUESTION 5 OF 7
Why is it important to test backups and restoration procedures? Check all that apply. Excellent! It's super important to test backups and restore procedures to ensure that they actually work! Backup archives could be corrupt or inconsistent, preventing proper restoration. Restore procedures are just as important to test, to ensure that critical data can be extracted from backups if a disaster strikes. Disaster testing can also reveal any gaps in your backup coverage without risking real-world data loss.
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To reduce the size of backup dataB
To speed up the backup-and-restore processC
To ensure backups work and data can be restored from themCorrect AnswerD
To ensure that relevant data is included in the backupsCorrect AnswerQUESTION 6 OF 7
Which of the following backup types are most space-efficient? Wohoo! Incremental backups are the most efficient. While they start with a full backup, on subsequent runs, they only backup the parts of files that have changed since the last run.
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Full backupsB
Differential backupsC
Incremental backupsCorrect AnswerQUESTION 7 OF 7
True or false: You can use a RAID array and use rsync to copy critical data to it for backups. You got it! RAID isn't a replacement for a backup system. You may use a RAID array as a storage system in your backup server, but copying files to a RAID array won't protect against data corruption or data deletion.
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TrueB
FalseCorrect AnswerReady to test your recall?
How can you recover from an unexpected data loss event? Check all that apply. Nice job! If a hard drive or device becomes damaged or fails, you can attempt to recover data using specialized software. If data becomes corrupt or gets deleted, you can also restore the data from backup.
💡Select all 2 correct answers before submitting (0 of 2 selected).
A
Write a post-mortem report.
B
Recover data from damaged devices.
C
Restore data from backups.
D
Design a disaster recovery plan.
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