WGU D488 QUIZ BANK COMPLETE
QUESTION SET AND ANSWERS 2026
UPDATED EDITION ACCURATE STUDY
MATERIAL ELITE PREP GRADED A+
⩥ A major retail company needs to set up alternate sites so that despite
any unforeseen circumstances, the business has as little impact on its
operation as possible. Which of the following would be the best setup?
A - Cold site
B - Warm site
C - Hot site
D - Mobile site. Answer: C - Hot site
A hot site is by far the most expensive and complicated option to
implement but results in close to real-time activation with little to no
service disruption.
A cold site is simply a facility under the organization's control but does
not have any pre-established information system capability.
A warm site includes a data center that is typically scaled-down from the
primary site to include the capacity and throughput needed to run critical
systems and software.
,A mobile site can be described as a data center in a box and is a
technique employed by the military.
⩥ A data center manager is planning for disaster recovery. What key
element should the manager first gain that is critical to success?
A - Staff resources
B - Testing activities
C - Metrics
D - Leadership support. Answer: D - Leadership support
Senior leadership's participation and sponsorship of Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) activities are essential for successful
preparedness.
Before taking staff resources away from business development projects
to work on BCDR planning, first requires senior leadership support.
Some organizations may have significant plans in place, but the
organizations may not have properly tested them.
Testing activities gaining BCDR development work will come to a halt
if senior leadership is not on board with dedicating resources to perform
the testing activities.
,Key strategic objectives and developing metrics must include BCDR
activities to measure operational success.
⩥ A security consultant works for a U.S.-based company and sets up a
data recovery site in Germany. The security consultant is beginning the
first verification of a data center failover scenario. What are some
common issues the consultant might expect to encounter? Select 3
answers.
A - Recovery failure
B - Conflicting laws
C - Data loss
D - Software not working. Answer: A, C & D; Recovery failure, Data
loss, Software not working
Failure to recover can be a common issue for various reasons. For
example, the entire data center had syncing issues, or the Storage Area
Network could have issues syncing, or disks were corrupt at the
recovery site.
Data loss is another common issue for similar reasons. An administrator
should monitor the health status of disaster recovery (DR) devices to
help avoid issues.
Software may not work when brought up from recovery for various
reasons. For example, server configurations may not have deployed
, exactly the same, or the configurations are the same but need changes
made for the DR environment.
The administrator should have vetted for conflicting laws when choosing
the data recovery site, not after setting everything up and performing
failover tests.
⩥ A security engineer is trying to identify appropriate groups to help
determine which groups should be part of incident response. Which
guide could they use?
A - NIST 800-53
B - NIST 800-61
C - ISO standard 15408
D - COBIT. Answer: B - NIST 800-61
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special
Publication (SP) 800-61, "Computer Security Incident Handling Guide,"
identifies the groups that are necessary when responding to an incident.
NIST 800-53, "Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems,"
outlines necessary controls for audits of information systems used for
certification.
QUESTION SET AND ANSWERS 2026
UPDATED EDITION ACCURATE STUDY
MATERIAL ELITE PREP GRADED A+
⩥ A major retail company needs to set up alternate sites so that despite
any unforeseen circumstances, the business has as little impact on its
operation as possible. Which of the following would be the best setup?
A - Cold site
B - Warm site
C - Hot site
D - Mobile site. Answer: C - Hot site
A hot site is by far the most expensive and complicated option to
implement but results in close to real-time activation with little to no
service disruption.
A cold site is simply a facility under the organization's control but does
not have any pre-established information system capability.
A warm site includes a data center that is typically scaled-down from the
primary site to include the capacity and throughput needed to run critical
systems and software.
,A mobile site can be described as a data center in a box and is a
technique employed by the military.
⩥ A data center manager is planning for disaster recovery. What key
element should the manager first gain that is critical to success?
A - Staff resources
B - Testing activities
C - Metrics
D - Leadership support. Answer: D - Leadership support
Senior leadership's participation and sponsorship of Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) activities are essential for successful
preparedness.
Before taking staff resources away from business development projects
to work on BCDR planning, first requires senior leadership support.
Some organizations may have significant plans in place, but the
organizations may not have properly tested them.
Testing activities gaining BCDR development work will come to a halt
if senior leadership is not on board with dedicating resources to perform
the testing activities.
,Key strategic objectives and developing metrics must include BCDR
activities to measure operational success.
⩥ A security consultant works for a U.S.-based company and sets up a
data recovery site in Germany. The security consultant is beginning the
first verification of a data center failover scenario. What are some
common issues the consultant might expect to encounter? Select 3
answers.
A - Recovery failure
B - Conflicting laws
C - Data loss
D - Software not working. Answer: A, C & D; Recovery failure, Data
loss, Software not working
Failure to recover can be a common issue for various reasons. For
example, the entire data center had syncing issues, or the Storage Area
Network could have issues syncing, or disks were corrupt at the
recovery site.
Data loss is another common issue for similar reasons. An administrator
should monitor the health status of disaster recovery (DR) devices to
help avoid issues.
Software may not work when brought up from recovery for various
reasons. For example, server configurations may not have deployed
, exactly the same, or the configurations are the same but need changes
made for the DR environment.
The administrator should have vetted for conflicting laws when choosing
the data recovery site, not after setting everything up and performing
failover tests.
⩥ A security engineer is trying to identify appropriate groups to help
determine which groups should be part of incident response. Which
guide could they use?
A - NIST 800-53
B - NIST 800-61
C - ISO standard 15408
D - COBIT. Answer: B - NIST 800-61
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special
Publication (SP) 800-61, "Computer Security Incident Handling Guide,"
identifies the groups that are necessary when responding to an incident.
NIST 800-53, "Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems,"
outlines necessary controls for audits of information systems used for
certification.
