Answer:
* Do we have a written disaster recovery plan?
o Are copies in possession of departmental management? At their homes?
* • When was our plan last updated?
* Does our plan include:
o A list of who in the department is empowered to declare a disaster? A list of critical personnel who will need to respond to a disaster?
--------- Telephone numbers (home, cell) for all critical personnel?
o An inventory of all our critical business functions?
o An inventory of the computer systems that support those functions?
------.. Including not only servers but critical desktop computers (e.g. departmental secretaries’ computers)?
o A rank-ordered list of which business functions we would restore first in event of a disaster?
* Suppose we had to evacuate the building due to a major disaster (fire, flood, chemical or biological event renders building inaccessible). Suppose all our systems are offline. How long would it take to restore basic departmental business functions and data from our offsite backup tapes?
o Are copies in possession of departmental management? At their homes?
* • When was our plan last updated?
* Does our plan include:
o A list of who in the department is empowered to declare a disaster? A list of critical personnel who will need to respond to a disaster?
--------- Telephone numbers (home, cell) for all critical personnel?
o An inventory of all our critical business functions?
o An inventory of the computer systems that support those functions?
------.. Including not only servers but critical desktop computers (e.g. departmental secretaries’ computers)?
o A rank-ordered list of which business functions we would restore first in event of a disaster?
* Suppose we had to evacuate the building due to a major disaster (fire, flood, chemical or biological event renders building inaccessible). Suppose all our systems are offline. How long would it take to restore basic departmental business functions and data from our offsite backup tapes?
| Previous Question | Next Question |
| Data Security questions | Security interview questions for network admin questions |