ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your company's disaster recovery plan states that the payroll analytics workload, running on Amazon EC2 behind an Application Load Balancer in two Availability Zones, must be exercised quarterly. The security manager schedules a tabletop exercise for next week. Which action best reflects the goal of this tabletop exercise while avoiding any impact on the live AWS environment?
Terminate the EC2 instances during the meeting to confirm Auto Scaling recreates them and the application fails over.
Use AWS CloudFormation to redeploy the stack in a secondary Region to verify Regional failover procedures.
Restore the latest AMIs into an isolated VPC and redirect a small percentage of traffic to validate recovery steps.
Hold a meeting where stakeholders walk through an application outage scenario and outline the required notifications, decisions, and responsibilities.
A tabletop exercise is a discussion-based drill in which stakeholders verbally walk through a hypothetical disruption, confirm roles, validate decision points, and identify gaps-without changing production systems. Discussing an application-down scenario and mapping the notification flow accomplishes this. Terminating instances, triggering Region failover, or restoring servers in another VPC are functional or parallel tests that involve manipulating resources and therefore fall outside the scope of a tabletop exercise.
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