Disaster Recovery and Runbook Automation Questions

Design and operational practices for backup, replication, and automated recovery procedures. Topics include backup and restore strategies, snapshot and replication options, cross region replication, and defining recovery point objective and recovery time objective targets. Candidates should be able to describe automated failover mechanisms, health checks, and the automation of runbooks for common operational tasks, as well as testing strategies such as scheduled drills and verification of backups. Also cover runbook versioning and storage, integration with monitoring and alerting, incident response coordination, and how automation reduces mean time to recovery while preserving safety and auditability.