CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1102) – Question090

An organization's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is concerned about losing access to very sensitive, legacy, unmaintained PII on a workstation if a ransomware outbreak occurs. The CFO has a regulatory requirement to retain this data for many years. Which of the following backup methods would BEST meet the requirements?


A.
A daily, incremental backup that is saved to the corporate file server
B. An additional, secondary hard drive in a mirrored RAID configuration
C. A full backup of the data that is stored off site in cold storage
D. Weekly, differential backups that are stored in a cloud-hosting provider

Correct Answer: C