EMERGENCY ALERT

🌀 Hurricane Strike

BCDR Escape Room Challenge

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Hurricane Category 4 Incoming!

A massive hurricane is barreling toward your data center. You have 20 minutes to complete 10 BCDR challenges and secure your company's critical data before the storm makes landfall and knocks out power.

⚠️ Mission Briefing

  • Complete 10 BCDR challenges before time runs out
  • Each correct answer saves critical company data
  • Wrong answers cost precious time (-30 seconds)
  • Various puzzle types: multiple choice, matching, sequencing, and codes
1

Priority Assessment

SITUATION: The hurricane will hit soon. You can only manually trigger ONE emergency backup. The office has: a file server (last backup 2 hours ago), the domain controller (last backup 8 hours ago), a test VM (3 days ago), and accounting database (6 hours ago).

Which server should you prioritize?

2

RPO Crisis

SITUATION: Your manager asks: "What's the WORST case data loss if the hurricane destroys our data center RIGHT NOW?" Backups run every hour, last successful backup was 45 minutes ago, all synced to cloud.

What's the maximum potential data loss?

3

Recovery Decision

SITUATION: Hurricane passed. Office flooded, servers destroyed. Backups safe in cloud. CEO demands ERP system online within 30 minutes.

Fastest way to get ERP running?

4

The Golden Rule

SITUATION: Leadership reviews backup strategy. The IT Director asks you to verify the "3-2-1 Rule" that saved the company.

What does 3-2-1 stand for?

5

Trust But Verify

SITUATION: Before the hurricane, backups showed "successful" but you wanted proof they'd actually work. What Slide feature proves recoverability?

What proves a backup is actually bootable?

6

Status Check

SITUATION: You're checking the Slide dashboard and see different colored status indicators next to each agent. One shows ORANGE.

What does an ORANGE status indicator mean?

7

Backup Basics

SITUATION: A new server was added yesterday. Its first backup took 4 hours. Today's backup took only 15 minutes. A colleague asks why.

Why was today's backup so much faster?

8

Storage Crunch

SITUATION: The Slide Box shows 85% capacity. You need to free space but can't delete recent backups. The client has a Comprehensive retention policy keeping snapshots for 7 years.

What's the safest way to free up space?

9

Architecture Quiz

SITUATION: A client asks: "If my Slide Box dies, do I lose all my backups?" You need to explain how the Slide architecture protects their data.

What happens to backups if the Slide Box is destroyed?

10

Emergency Override

FINAL CHALLENGE: To initiate emergency cloud failover, you need to enter the correct code. The code is the MINIMUM backup interval in minutes that Slide supports.

Enter the minimum backup interval (in minutes):

Hint: What's the shortest backup interval Slide offers?

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