ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your company hosts critical workloads in two AWS Regions and is updating its disaster-recovery playbook. Leadership wants a schedule that follows recognized guidelines: low-impact exercises occur the most frequently, while highly disruptive drills are performed less often but still often enough to provide assurance. Which testing cadence best meets this goal?
Schedule a checklist read-through every month, a tabletop exercise quarterly, a simulation test twice a year, and a full-interruption exercise every two years.
Conduct a checklist read-through every quarter, a tabletop exercise every six months, a parallel simulation test once per year, and a full-interruption exercise once per year.
Run a checklist read-through once per year, a tabletop exercise every two years, a simulation test every six months, and a full-interruption exercise each quarter.
Perform an on-demand read-through only when major changes occur, a tabletop exercise annually, a simulation test every three years, and never conduct a full-interruption exercise.
Authoritative references such as NIST SP 800-34 and ISO 22301 recommend that simple, nondisruptive tests be run more often than disruptive ones. A quarterly checklist read-through keeps documentation current with minimal effort. A semi-annual tabletop session exercises coordination without touching production. A parallel simulation test each year validates technical recovery steps, and a full-interruption exercise once per year satisfies guidance that such end-to-end tests occur roughly every twelve months while still being the least frequent because of their business impact. The other schedules either test disruptive activities too frequently, test them too rarely, or invert the intended frequency hierarchy, making them cost-inefficient or insufficiently rigorous.
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