100-160 · Question #53
You are reviewing your company's disaster recovery plan. Which two daily data backup actions should the plan include? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. Back up the data to removable media and store it off-site. C. Back up the data by using cloud services. A comprehensive disaster recovery plan includes performing regular backups and ensuring copies are stored in locations not subject to the same physical risks as the primary site. Off-site storage and cloud-based backups provide resilience against local disasters.
Question
You are reviewing your company's disaster recovery plan. Which two daily data backup actions should the plan include? (Choose two.)
Options
- ABack up the data to removable media and store it off-site.
- BBack up each department's data to a separate local server.
- CBack up the data by using cloud services.
- DBack up the data by using RAID on a local external hard drive with a secondary power source.
How the community answered
(34 responses)- A79% (27)
- B15% (5)
- D6% (2)
Explanation
A comprehensive disaster recovery plan includes performing regular backups and ensuring copies are stored in locations not subject to the same physical risks as the primary site. Off-site storage and cloud-based backups provide resilience against local disasters.
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Community Discussion
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Samuel O.Apr 28, 2026A and C are your two keepers here. Off-site removable media gets your data physically away from the building so a fire or flood does not wipe out your backup along with your production systems, and cloud backup gives you that same geographic separation automatically plus easy restoral from anywhere, which is exactly what a disaster recovery plan is built around.
Mateus R.Apr 30, 2026Good call, though worth flagging for the exam that removable media still has a "window of exposure" between the moment you write the backup and the moment someone physically drives it off-site, so cloud edges it out on Recovery Point Objective when every hour of data loss counts.
Fatima Z.Apr 21, 2026Okay so hear me out, I am locking in B and C and here is why B has to be in there. Think of it like the DEPT method, Divide Each Piece To protect, because separating each department onto its own local server means if accounting's data gets corrupted, it cannot crawl over and eat HR's backup too. That isolation is a real recovery win because you are not restoring one giant blob, you are pulling exactly the department that went down, fast and clean. I keep seeing people sleep on B because they think "local" automatically means "bad," but the question says local server, not local drive, and a dedicated server per department gives you granular recovery points that a single dumped backup just cannot match. B plus C is my duo, cloud for the offsite redundancy and departmental servers for the organized, targeted restore that actually makes a DR plan usable under pressure.
Samuel O.Apr 22, 2026Fatima, the isolation benefit you are describing is real, but that is actually what a dedicated centralized backup server in option A gives you through organized backup sets, and it does that without multiplying your hardware footprint and management overhead across every department. A and C pair the on-site dedicated server with cloud offsite redundancy, which is the textbook 3-2-1 aligned answer the exam is looking for.
Mateus R.Apr 22, 2026Passed this exam last spring and this question tripped me up for a second because option D sounds so thorough, but then I remembered my grandfather keeping his important documents in two places: one copy in his home safe and another at the bank across town. That is exactly what A and C give you, one copy somewhere physically separate from your building and one copy floating in the cloud, so a single flood or fire cannot wipe out your only backup the way a local RAID drive or a department server absolutely can.
Samuel O.Apr 23, 2026The grandfather analogy is solid, but worth adding that the offsite physical copy only pulls its weight if you are actually testing restores from it on a regular schedule, because a backup nobody has verified is just hope in a box.