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BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING EXAM 2024/2025
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNINGEXAM 2024/2025
What does Business Continuity Planning address? - Precise Answer
✔✔The preservation and recovery of the business in the event of
outages to normal business operations.
What is a disaster? - Precise Answer ✔✔1) Something that interrupts
normal business process.
-A sudden, unplanned calamitous event that brings about great damage
or loss.
-In the business environment, it is any event that creates an inability on
an organization's part to support critical business functions for some
predetermined period of time.
Potentially Disastrous Events - Precise Answer ✔✔-Natural (i.e,.
earthquakes, storms)
-System/Technical (i.e., outages, malicious code)
-Supply Systems (i.e., electrical power problems)
-Human-Made/Political (i.e., disgruntled employees, riots, vandalism)
Defining a BCP - Precise Answer ✔✔An approved set of advanced
arrangements
and procedures that enable an organization to:
,-Ensure the safety of people.
-Minimize the amount of loss.
-Facilitate the recovery of business operations to reduce the overall
impact of an event, while at the same time resuming the critical business
functions within a predetermined period of time.
-Repair or replace the damaged facilities as soon as possible.
-Traditionally, recovery plans focused on the recovery of critical
computer systems running at data centers.
-Today, recovery plans must also focus on the critical computer systems
operating in a distributed environment involving personal computers,
LANs, telecommunications, etc.
-Essentially, continuity plans address every critical function of an
enterprise.
Requirements of Business Continuity Planning - Precise Answer ✔✔-
Provide an immediate, accurate, and measured response to emergency
situations, with the overall goal of ensuring the safety of individuals.
-Mitigate the damage you are experiencing as a result of the disaster.
-Ensure the survivability of the business.
-Provide procedures and a listing of resources to assist in the recovery
process.
-Identify vendors that may be needed in the recovery process and put
agreements in place with selected vendors.
-Avoid confusion experienced during a crisis by documenting, testing,
and training plan procedures.
-Clear guidance for declaring a disaster.
, -Provide the necessary direction to ensure the timely resumption of
critical services.
-Document storage, safeguarding, and retrieval procedures for critical
systems and supporting functions.
-Describe the actions, resources, and materials required to restore critical
operations at an alternate site in the event that the primary site(s) has
suffered a serious outage.
-Document recovery procedures so they can be executed by
knowledgeable people.
Define BCP Scope - Precise Answer ✔✔Should cover all aspects of an
organization, including:
-Personnel
-Facilities
-Infrastructure
-Support systems
-Information systems
Define Business Continuity Management - Precise Answer ✔✔-A
strategic and operational framework to review the way an organization
provides its products and services while increasing its resilience to
disruption, interruption or loss.
-Provides a framework for building resilience and the capability for an
effective response which safeguards the interests of a company's key
stakeholders, reputation, brand and value creating activities.
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