Business Continuity Question and Answer Graded A+

business continuity - ANSWER-Business continuity planning helps an organization predict and plan for potential outages of critical services or functions. The goal is to ensure that critical business operations continue and the organization can survive the outage. business continuity plan (BCP) - ANSWER-A plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption business impact analysis (BIA) - ANSWER-A business impact analysis (BIA) is an important part of a BCP. It helps an organization identify critical systems and components that are essential to the organization's success. These critical systems support mission-essential functions. The BIA also helps identify vulnerable business processes. These are processes that support mission-essential functions. This documentation identifies core business or mission requirements. The BIA does not recommend solutions. What questions should be asked during a BIA? - ANSWER-What are the critical systems and functions? • Are there any dependencies related to these critical systems and functions? • What is the maximum downtime limit of these critical systems and functions? • What scenarios are most likely to impact these critical systems and functions? • What is the potential loss from these scenarios? • Will a disaster result in loss of life? Is there a way to minimize the risk to personnel? • Will a disaster result in loss of property? • Will a disaster reduce safety for personnel or property? • What are the potential financial losses to the organization? • What are the potential losses to the organization's reputation? Why is identifying the maximum downtime limit so important? - ANSWER-It drives decisions related to recovery objectives and helps an organization identify various contingency plans and policies. privacy threshold assessment - ANSWER-The primary purpose of the privacy threshold assessment is to help the organization identify PII within a system. privacy impact assessment - ANSWER-The impact assessment attempts to identify potential risks related to the PII by reviewing how the information is handled. The goal is to ensure that the system is complying with applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) - ANSWER-The recovery time objective (RTO) identifies the maximum amount of time it can take to restore a system after an outage.