ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your company's disaster‐recovery team is informed that a strong earthquake has made the primary data center structurally unsafe and power is expected to be out for several days. A formal disaster declaration has been issued. According to business-continuity best practices for natural-disaster response, which action should be taken first to keep mission-critical applications available?
Wait for government structural engineers to declare the primary facility safe before executing any recovery steps.
Initiate failover to the company's fully operational hot site located in a different seismic zone.
Begin a full data restore from the most recent off-site tape backup to replacement hardware at the damaged facility.
Suspend all outbound internet traffic from the primary site to prevent possible data exfiltration during the outage.
Once management declares a disaster, the business-continuity plan moves from preparation into the activation and relocation phase. The highest priority is to restore availability of critical services by transferring processing to the predefined alternate site that is already equipped and ready-typically a hot site in another geographic region. Beginning restorations at the damaged facility delays recovery and may be impossible while utilities are offline. Halting network connectivity or waiting for structural clearance does nothing to maintain service availability and therefore are not appropriate first steps under the BCP.
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