Main Preamble:

King College, with a population of 3000 students, 12,000 alumni, 300 staff and non-staff members have 3 campuses in 3 different regions in Nigeria. The main campus located in Lagos houses the college of Arts and Engineering while the college of Informatics is located in Abuja. The College of Social Sciences is located in Ibadan and the College of interdisciplinary studies has been moved to Akure. As a storage consultant, you have been hired by your Alma Mata to build a storage and backup system for the College. With this preamble, answer the following questions to the best of your ability;

1. It is important to develop a business continuity document for King College to outline how to recover in case of an unexpected outage. Mention 3 core components of a business continuity document.

2. Mention 3 ways of securing data in your proposed storage architecture.

3. There are several backup and recovery methods including incremental backup, full backup and cumulative (differential) backup. Which of these would you recommend in your storage architecture design and why?

4. Cloud computing using Object-based storage devices (OSD) stores the data in the form of objects. It is an essential design option to make storage future-proof. Mention 3 benefits of including an off-premise architecture to your proposal.