Question

During a regional disaster, a financial services firm activates its disaster recovery plan. The IT operations team is overwhelmed by simultaneous requests to restore dozens of systems. To restore services in a way that minimizes overall business impact, what should MOST guide the sequence in which systems are recovered?

Accepted Answer

The business impact analysis and the criticality/dependency ranking of each system

Answer

The chronological order in which each system originally went offline

Answer

The technical complexity of each system, restoring the simplest first

Answer

The preference of the department heads who submit restoration requests first