Joe, a systems administrator, is setting up a risk management plan for the IT department. Part of the plan is to take daily backups of all servers. The server backups will be saved locally to NAS…

Question

Options

• AFrequently restore the servers from backup files and test them
• BConfigure the backups to restore to virtual machines for quick recovery
• CSet up scripts that automatically rerun failed backup jobs
• DSet up alerts to let administrators know when backups fail
• EStore copies of the backups off-side in a secure datacenter

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  7% (2)
• D
  75% (21)
• E
  14% (4)

Explanation

In the context of this risk management question, the primary operational concern is knowing immediately when a backup job fails so corrective action can be taken before the next backup window. Setting up failure alerts creates an active monitoring mechanism that ensures no failed backup goes unnoticed - which is the foundation of a reliable backup strategy. Without alerts, a silent failure could mean days or weeks of missing backups that are only discovered during a disaster. Option A (test restores) is excellent practice but is periodic, not continuous. Option B (VM restores) addresses recovery speed, not backup reliability. Option C (rerun scripts) handles retries but not notification. Option E (off-site storage) addresses availability and redundancy, not backup job success monitoring. Alerts provide the ongoing assurance that the daily backup process is functioning as designed.

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