Business Continuity Planning questions with correct answers

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 com