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Review Chapter 13, and the above videos on Disaster Recovery and Contingency Planning. Using these and other resources (i.e. Internet), answer the following 3 questions in a single word document and upload to the dropbox. 1. Explain each of the three basic options for replacing IT infrastructure; cold sites, hot sites, and real-time mirroring. Provide at least one pro and con for each option. 2. In a brief paragraph or two, explain why do you think that surveys continue to find that a sizable percentage of organizations either do not have formal disaster recovery and business continuity plans or have not tested and revised those plans for more than a year? 3. MonsterMed Inc. (MMI) is an online pharmaceutical firm. MMI has a small systems staff that designs and writes MMIs customized software. The data center is installed in the basement of its two-story headquarters building. The data center is equipped with fire suppression equipment and an uninterruptible power supply system. Because the programming staff is small and the work demands have increased, backups are only made when time permits. The backup files are stored in a locked cabinet in the data center. Recently, due to several days of heavy rains, MMIs building recently experienced serious flooding that destroyed not only the computer hardware but also all the data and program files that were on-site. Identify at least 3 weaknesses in MonsterMed Inc.s backup and DRP procedures.

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