ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
An organization is updating its disaster recovery strategy for a mission-critical inventory system hosted on-premises. Management requires the service to be available within two hours (RTO) and to lose no more than a few seconds of data (near-zero RPO) after a regional outage. The team decides to contract a commercial hot site. Which single factor must the security practitioner confirm first to ensure the hot site can actually meet these recovery objectives?
That the provider offers the lowest monthly subscription fee, even if hardware specifications differ from production.
That the hot site is located at least 1,500 miles from the primary data center to avoid the same regional disaster.
That production data is replicated to the hot site in real time or near real time.
That administrators can physically transport the latest backup tapes to the hot site within the two-hour window.
A hot site already contains pre-installed, compatible hardware, network connectivity, and basic system software, so it can be brought online quickly. However, meeting a near-zero Recovery Point Objective depends on how current the data at the hot site is when a disaster occurs. Only continuous or real-time replication guarantees that transactions committed at the primary site are also present at the hot site, allowing the application to restart with minimal or no data loss and within the required two-hour RTO. While geographical separation, cost, and tape availability are valid considerations, none of them by itself ensures that both the RTO and the near-zero RPO will be satisfied if current data is missing when the failover happens.
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