Data Management and Recovery Quiz

Which of the following measures the amount of data that might be potentially lost as a result of a system failure?

• recovery time objective (RTO)

• recovery point objective (RPO)

• disaster recovery plan (DRP)

• business continuity plan (BCP)

Which data entry application control would detect and prevent entry of alphabetic characters as the price of an inventory item?

• field check

• limit check

• reasonableness check

• sign check

Which of the following controls would prevent entry of a nonexistent customer number in a sales transaction?

• field check

• completeness check

• validity check

• batch total

Which disaster recovery strategy involves contracting for use of a physical site to which all necessary computing equipment will be delivered within 24 to 36 hours?

• virtualization

• cold site

• hot site

• data mirroring

Which of the following statements is true?

• Incremental daily backups are faster to perform than differential daily backups, but restoration is slower and more complex.

• Incremental daily backups are faster to perform than differential daily backups, and restoration is faster and simpler.

• Differential daily backups are faster to perform than incremental daily backups, but restoration is slower and more complex.

• Differential daily backups are faster to perform than incremental daily backups, and restoration is faster and simpler.

Information that needs to be stored securely for 10 years or more would most likely be stored in which type of file?

• backup

• archive

• encrypted

• log

Which of the following is an example of the kind of batch total called a hash total?

• the sum of the purchase amount field in a set of purchase orders

• the sum of the purchase order number field in a set of purchase orders

• the number of completed documents in a set of purchase orders

• all of the above

Which of the following statements is true?

• Virtualization significantly reduces RTO for hardware problems.

• Cloud computing reduces the risk that a single catastrophe from either a natural disaster or terrorist attack would result in significant downtime and loss of availability.

• Backups still need to be made when using either virtualization or cloud computing.

• All of the above are true.

Which of the following provides detailed procedures to resolve the problems resulting from a flash flood that completely destroys a company’s data center?

• backup plan

• disaster recovery plan (DRP)

• business continuity plan (BCP)

• archive plan

Which of the following is a control that can be used to verify the accuracy of information transmitted over a network?

• completeness check

• check digit

• parity bit

• size check