CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1002) — Question 148

A security team recommends a disaster recovery plan with the following requirements:
✑ Recent backups should be readily available.
✑ Only long-term backups should be stored off premises.
✑ There should be minimum expenditure on hardware.
Which of the following satisfies all of these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Store 30 days of backups on premises and then age the backups to the public cloud
• B. Store backups on premises and burst to the public cloud if needed
• C. Store backups both on premises and in a public cloud infrastructure
• D. Store all the backups in a public cloud with no on-premises backup storage

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Option A is correct because it ensures that recent backups are readily available on-premises while also meeting the requirement to store long-term backups off-site in the public cloud. Option B does not fully satisfy the requirement for long-term off-site storage, and Option C keeps recent backups on-premises but does not adhere to the specification of off-site long-term storage. Option D fails to provide any on-premises backup storage, which contradicts the requirement for recent backups to be readily accessible.