When using cloud-based services to host company data, a company's disaster recovery plan should include strategies for:

Question

Options

• ACreating redundancy and ensuring there is an exclusive contract with the cloud service provider.
• BDistributing data and software services across multiple cloud service providers.
• CCreating redundancy and using multiple cloud service providers.
• DUsing a single well-established cloud service provider.

• A
  12% (3)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  81% (21)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

C is correct because a robust disaster recovery plan requires both redundancy (duplicate copies/systems so no single failure brings everything down) and multi-provider distribution (so an outage at one provider doesn't take all your data with it) - these two strategies together directly address availability and resilience goals.

A is wrong because an exclusive contract with a single provider creates a dangerous single point of failure; if that provider goes down, your entire recovery plan fails regardless of internal redundancy.

B is wrong because distributing across multiple providers is a good start, but without redundancy (actual duplication of data/services), you still risk data loss if one provider has an incident before a sync.

D is wrong because relying on a single provider - even a reputable one - violates the core DR principle of avoiding single points of failure; no provider, however established, is immune to outages.

Memory tip: Think "2R rule" - Redundancy + Resilience (multi-provider). If an answer only mentions one of those two, it's incomplete for a true disaster recovery strategy.

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