GUIDE WITH SOLVED QUESTIONS
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⩥ Analysis (PP3). Answer: Analysis is the Professional Practice within
the business continuity management lifecycle that reviews and assesses
an organization to identify its objectives, how it functions and the
constraints of its operating environment.
⩥ Audit. Answer: A systematic, independent and documented process
for obtaining audit evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine
the extent to which the audit criteria are fulfilled.
⩥ Business Continuity (BC). Answer: The capability of the organization
to continue delivery of products or services at acceptable pre-defined
levels following disruptive incident.
⩥ Business continuity management. Answer: A holistic management
process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the
impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and
which provides a framework for building organizational resilience with
the capability of an effective response that safeguards the interests of its
keystakeholders, reputation, brand and value-creating activities.
, ⩥ Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lifecycle. Answer: The
ongoing cycle of activities of the business continuity programme, that
build organizational resilience.
⩥ Business Continuity Management System (BCMS). Answer: Part of
the overall management system that establishes, implements, operates,
monitors, reviews, maintains and improves business continuity.
⩥ Business continuity plan (BCP). Answer: Documented procedures that
guide organizations to respond, recover, resume, and restore to a pre-
defined level of operation following disruption.
⩥ Business continuity programme. Answer: The ongoing management
and governance process supported by top management and appropriately
resourced to implement and maintain business continuity management.
⩥ Business continuity requirements. Answer: The time frames and
resources, and capabilities necessary to continue to deliver the
prioritised products, services, processes, and activities following a
disruption.
⩥ Business impact analysis (BIA). Answer: The process of analysing
activities and the effect that a business disruption might have upon them.