Review Questions

The following questions are designed to test your understanding of this chapter’s material. For more information on how to obtain additional questions, please see this book’s introduction. You can find the answers in Appendix A.

1. Data replication is often used to store copies of real-time data in remote zones. When there is a need to have the master data immediately updated, and then on the backend, update the remote zones, what type of replication would you recommend your operations department to configure?

   1. Synchronous
   2. Asynchronous
   3. Volume sync
   4. Mirroring
   5. RAID 5

2. Sharon has been directed to put together a disaster recovery plan based on directives from her company’s executive management team. The company’s core business is operating an e-commerce website selling winter apparel with 85 percent of its revenue received during the holiday season. If there was a prolonged outage, it would put the company’s ability to continue as a...