CompTIA Security+ · SY0-701
Objective 3.4: Explain the importance of resilience and recovery in security architecture
Practice questions for Security+ objective 3.4, “Explain the importance of resilience and recovery in security architecture.” Every question is original, written to the SY0-701 exam objectives, and comes with a full explanation — answer them below to see instant grading.
This objective sits in Domain 3.0: Security Architecture, which is about 18% of the exam — so mastering it moves your readiness score meaningfully.
1.Which of the following represents the BEST practice for backup encryption?
2.A financial services organization runs a trading platform that must remain continuously available during market hours. The platform is deployed across two active datacenters in different cities, each running at 50% capacity during normal operations. Either datacenter can absorb 100% of the workload within seconds if the other fails, with no data loss and no manual intervention required. The organization also maintains a third facility that has no pre-installed systems but has power, cooling, and network connectivity available. Which combination of resilience architectures do the primary trading platform and the third facility represent, respectively?
3.An organisation's RTO is 4 hours and its RPO is 1 hour. Which backup strategy BEST satisfies the RPO requirement?
4.A company's recovery documentation states that after a declared disaster, all critical systems must be restored and business operations must be fully resumed within 24 hours. A separate requirement states that no more than four hours of transaction data can be lost in any recovery scenario. Which metrics do these two requirements define, and which one drives the organization's data backup frequency decisions?
5.Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of capacity planning in security architecture resilience?
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