A company just successfully completed a DR test and is ready to shut down its DR site and resume normal operations. Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take FIRST?
A company just successfully completed a DR test and is ready to shut down its DR site and resume normal operations. Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take FIRST?
Once a disaster recovery (DR) test has been successfully completed and the company is ready to resume normal operations, the primary step is to perform a failback. Failback involves transitioning operations from the DR site back to the primary site, ensuring that all systems, applications, and services are correctly moved back to their original state. This allows the company to restore its primary environment and resume normal business activities.
D would be the correct answer based on the criteria in the scenario. A failover is when you fall forward to mitigation operations for issues per your DR plan(s). Once those issues are over, you are to fall back on normal operations (i.e., failback).
Further clarification: Failover – uses a constant communication mechanism between two systems called a heartbeat. If this heartbeat continues uninterrupted, failover to the redundant system won’t initiate. If the heartbeat between systems fails, the redundant system will take over the processing for the primary system. Failback – when primary systems become operational again, the organization can initiate a failback. Failback is the process of restoring the processing back to the original node. If this were a failure situation, failback would revert processing to the node that had failed once it has been fixed.
Correct answer should be D. Perform a Failback.
Correct answer should be D. Perform a Failback.
When a company has successfully completed a Disaster Recovery (DR) test and is ready to resume normal operations, the FIRST action the cloud administrator should take is typically to **perform a failback.** Here's a brief explanation of each option: 1. **Failover**: Failover is the process of switching from the primary site (which is inoperative due to a disaster or testing) to the secondary or DR site to ensure business continuity. If the DR test was successful, you might have already performed the failover during the test. In a production environment, failover would have been triggered by a disaster. 2. **Restore Backups**: This step may be necessary during the failback process or as part of the overall recovery plan. However, restoring backups is generally done after initiating the failback because you want to ensure that your primary environment is operational before restoring data to it.
3. **Configure the Network**: Configuring the network is an important step in the overall recovery process, but it should also be done as part of the failback process. During the DR test, network configurations may have been altered to route traffic to the DR site. Configuring the network correctly during the failback ensures that traffic is routed back to the primary site. 4. **Perform a Failback**: A failback is the process of returning operations from the DR site (or backup environment) to the primary site once it is ready to resume normal operations. This step includes reversing any changes made during the failover or DR test and ensuring that the primary environment is fully operational. In summary, initiating a failback is typically the FIRST action taken after a successful DR test to return operations to the primary site and resume normal business activities. The other actions may be necessary as part of the overall recovery plan but usually follow the failback process.
A company just successfully completed a DR test and is ready to shut down its DR site and resume normal operations. Which of the following actions should the cloud administrator take FIRST? A. Initiate a failover. B. Restore backups. C. Configure the network. D. Perform a failback.
was on my exam, I go for D
D would be the correct answer based on the criteria in the scenario. A failover is when you fall forward to mitigation operations for issues per your DR plan(s). Once those issues are over, you are to fall back on normal operations (i.e., failback).
D. Perform a failback: Failback is the process of returning operations from the DR site back to the primary site. This involves ensuring that all systems, applications, and services are transitioned back to the primary environment seamlessly. It is critical to perform failback in an orderly manner to minimize disruption and ensure business continuity.
How is it not A???
It already failover now it needs to failback