CBCI Exam
Solved Questions With Revised
Correct Detailed Answers
1. Competancies & Skills - Embedding - ANSWER Anyone with roles and
experience should have the right education, training and experience for their role
in the BCMP This includes key personnel in the supply chain and outrsourced
service providers.
Make sure there are alternates.
2. Competancies & Skills - Incident Response - ANSWER Could include:
First aid, ICT, crisis mgt and leadership, damage mgt.
3. Four types of BIA - ANSWER An initial BIA
A product and service BIA
A process BIA
An activity BIA
4. Business Continuity Requirements are - ANSWER The timeframes,
resources and capabilities necessary to continue to deliver the prioritised
products, services, processes and activities following a disruption.
,5. Product and services - ANSWER Sometimes referred to as beneficial
outcomes by an organisation to its customers, reciepients or interested parties.
6. A process - ANSWER Something that transforms inputs into outputs.
7. MTPD - ANSWER Maximum tolerable period of disruption
8. MAO - ANSWER Maximum acceptable outage
9. RTO - ANSWER Recovery Time Objective
10. MTPD or MAO - ANSWER The time it takes for adverse impacts that
might arise as a result of not performing an activity to become unacceptable.
11. Methods for collecting BIA information - ANSWER Workshops
Questionnaires
Interviews
12. Documents to be reviewed as part of BIA - ANSWER Existing BIA
information
Strategic plans
Annual reports
Legal or regulatory plans
SLA
Risk register
, 13. MTPD Limit - ANSWER This is reached when the damage levels mean
organisational failure is imminent.
14. Factors when calculating MTPD - ANSWER Financial damage
Reputational damage
Legal or regulatory breach
Failure to meet strategic objectives
15. MTPD is express in terms of - ANSWER Minutes, hours, days and weeks
A BIA quantifies - ANSWER The impacts of a disruption on the organisation
not the impact on interested third parties
The RTO in relation to MTPD should always be - ANSWER RTO should always
be less than MTPD
When should a BIA be reviewed - ANSWER At regular pre-agreed intervals
(annually) or following significant business change
The initial BIA - ANSWER High level analysis that identifies the products,
services and processes within the the organisation.
The delivery of what is more important - ANSWER A timely initial BIA is more
important than a detailed piece of work
Solved Questions With Revised
Correct Detailed Answers
1. Competancies & Skills - Embedding - ANSWER Anyone with roles and
experience should have the right education, training and experience for their role
in the BCMP This includes key personnel in the supply chain and outrsourced
service providers.
Make sure there are alternates.
2. Competancies & Skills - Incident Response - ANSWER Could include:
First aid, ICT, crisis mgt and leadership, damage mgt.
3. Four types of BIA - ANSWER An initial BIA
A product and service BIA
A process BIA
An activity BIA
4. Business Continuity Requirements are - ANSWER The timeframes,
resources and capabilities necessary to continue to deliver the prioritised
products, services, processes and activities following a disruption.
,5. Product and services - ANSWER Sometimes referred to as beneficial
outcomes by an organisation to its customers, reciepients or interested parties.
6. A process - ANSWER Something that transforms inputs into outputs.
7. MTPD - ANSWER Maximum tolerable period of disruption
8. MAO - ANSWER Maximum acceptable outage
9. RTO - ANSWER Recovery Time Objective
10. MTPD or MAO - ANSWER The time it takes for adverse impacts that
might arise as a result of not performing an activity to become unacceptable.
11. Methods for collecting BIA information - ANSWER Workshops
Questionnaires
Interviews
12. Documents to be reviewed as part of BIA - ANSWER Existing BIA
information
Strategic plans
Annual reports
Legal or regulatory plans
SLA
Risk register
, 13. MTPD Limit - ANSWER This is reached when the damage levels mean
organisational failure is imminent.
14. Factors when calculating MTPD - ANSWER Financial damage
Reputational damage
Legal or regulatory breach
Failure to meet strategic objectives
15. MTPD is express in terms of - ANSWER Minutes, hours, days and weeks
A BIA quantifies - ANSWER The impacts of a disruption on the organisation
not the impact on interested third parties
The RTO in relation to MTPD should always be - ANSWER RTO should always
be less than MTPD
When should a BIA be reviewed - ANSWER At regular pre-agreed intervals
(annually) or following significant business change
The initial BIA - ANSWER High level analysis that identifies the products,
services and processes within the the organisation.
The delivery of what is more important - ANSWER A timely initial BIA is more
important than a detailed piece of work
