Business Continuity Planning Questions
and Answers Graded A+
What does Business Continuity Planning address? answer - The preservation and recovery of
the business in the event of outages to normal business operations.
What is a disaster? 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 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 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 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 answer - Should cover all aspects of an organization, including:
-Personnel
-Facilities
-Infrastructure
-Support systems
-Information systems
and Answers Graded A+
What does Business Continuity Planning address? answer - The preservation and recovery of
the business in the event of outages to normal business operations.
What is a disaster? 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 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 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 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 answer - Should cover all aspects of an organization, including:
-Personnel
-Facilities
-Infrastructure
-Support systems
-Information systems
