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These 10 free EDRP questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the EC-Council Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP) blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
Domain 1: Foundations of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery 8% of exam
Question 1
A benefits agency normally completes 600 applications per day. Its continuity requirement is 250 priority applications per day with normal accuracy and authorization controls. A tested paper workflow is completing 280 and meets those controls. Staffing and supplies will last through the expected outage, but the processing platform remains unavailable. What should the continuity manager recommend?
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Correct answer: C - Continue the paper workflow while completing recovery of the processing platform.
Domain 2: Business Continuity Management 10% of exam
Question 2
An approved procedure permits an AIOps service to restart a failed document-processing worker after confirming that another worker has taken over its queue. Deleting the queue requires the incident commander's separate approval. The takeover check passes, but the AIOps service proposes both restarting the failed worker and deleting the queue to clear repeated alerts. No deletion approval has been given. How should these proposed actions be handled?
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Correct answer: C - Allow the restart; withhold queue deletion pending the incident commander's approval.
Domain 3: Risk Assessment 12% of exam
Question 3
During a recovery test, users cannot sign in at either of two geographically separate sites. Compute, storage, and network checks pass. Both sites log timeouts to the same federated identity endpoint. At each site, a tester signs in through an approved emergency account that authenticates independently and completes the required business transaction. The evidence points most directly to which weakness?
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Correct answer: A - A shared identity dependency can disable access at both sites.
Question 4
A manufacturer expects one prolonged power outage every four years. Each outage causes $160,000 in lost operating margin and $40,000 in equipment damage; the losses do not overlap. A maintenance agreement costs $12,000 annually and would reduce the frequency to once every ten years without changing loss per outage. Management will buy it only if the expected annual loss reduction exceeds its annual cost. What does this assessment support?
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Correct answer: A - Buy it: the expected annual net benefit would be $18,000.
Domain 4: Business Impact Analysis 12% of exam
Question 5
A dispatch service fails at 09:00 after accepting transactions continuously. Its recovery time objective (RTO) is 90 minutes from disruption through successful business validation; its recovery point objective (RPO) is 15 minutes. The plan is activated at 09:20. The application starts at 10:10, and validation finishes at 10:45. All transactions through 08:50 are recovered, but none from the final ten minutes. Which objectives were achieved?
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Correct answer: B - The RPO only.
Domain 5: Business Continuity Plan 10% of exam
Question 6
A freight company's AI service for clearing shipments becomes unavailable. Its continuity plan authorizes a tested rules engine for standard domestic shipments; the engine preserves approval records and meets the minimum service requirement. Export shipments need checks outside that engine's approval and can be queued separately. An alternate AI supplier is online but has not passed validation. Which operating instruction should the shift lead issue?
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Correct answer: D - Clear eligible domestic shipments through the rules engine; queue exports for their required checks.
Domain 6: Disaster Recovery Planning 12% of exam
Question 7
A retailer needs a recovery application in a second AWS Region to accept priority purchases as soon as traffic is redirected, without first creating or starting application servers. Reduced throughput is acceptable while capacity scales. All proposals provide equally acceptable recovery data and working routing. The architect must minimize the continuously running application footprint. Which proposal meets that brief?
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Correct answer: C - Maintain a functioning application at reduced capacity, then scale it after redirecting traffic.
Domain 7: Data Backup and System Recovery 10% of exam
Question 8
A backup catalog lists a Sunday full backup, Monday and Tuesday incrementals, a Wednesday differential based on Sunday's full, and a Thursday incremental containing changes since Wednesday's differential. The backup product supports this mixed sequence. Tuesday's incremental is unreadable; all other sets are verified usable. Which sequence uses the fewest sets to restore the data through Thursday's backup?
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Correct answer: D - Sunday full; Wednesday differential; Thursday incremental.
Domain 9: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan Activation 8% of exam
Question 9
Smoke is entering a staffed data center, and emergency services order evacuation. Local recovery tapes remain inside. An offsite copy is available, but transporting it will add two hours to recovery. The recovery coordinator's immediate instruction should be to:
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Correct answer: A - Evacuate, account for personnel, and arrange recovery from the offsite copy.
Domain 10: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan Activation Test, Training, and Exercise 8% of exam
Question 10
A recovery dashboard reports 100% restore success: all 18 completed restores passed business checks and met their RTOs. The test log also records two critical services whose restore attempts aborted because backup encryption keys were unavailable. The dashboard excludes aborted attempts. Which report accurately states the restore-success rate and remaining readiness gaps?
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Correct answer: C - 90% restore success, with both critical services reported as failed recoveries needing corrective action.