ACCA Applied Knowledge · Business and Technology · Internal controls
A retailer's server holds customer data. Overnight, a fire destroys the server room. The company restores operations within hours using an up-to-date copy held at a remote site. Which control has chiefly enabled this?
A disaster recovery plan with offsite backups made the recovery possible. A current copy stored away from the damaged site allows data and operations to be restored after a fire. Validation, passwords and firewalls do not protect against physical destruction of the server room.
- AData validation routines
- BPassword complexity rules
- CDisaster recovery plan with offsite backupsCorrect
- DFirewall configuration
Explanation
Restoring data and operations after physical destruction depends on offsite backups within a disaster recovery plan. Validation and password rules do not preserve data after a fire. A firewall protects against external network intrusion, not physical loss.
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