CBCI - GPG Glossary of Terms and Exam
Questions And Answers 2025 Update.
Activity or activities - Answer✔One or more tasks undertaken by, or for an organization, that
produces or supports the delivery of one or more products and services.
Analysis (PP3) - Answer✔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 evidence
and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which the 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.
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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.
Competence - Answer✔The ability to apply knowledge and skills to achieve intended results.
Continual improvement - Answer✔A recurring activity to enhance performance.
Crisis - Answer✔A situation with a high level of uncertainty that disrupts the core activities
and/or credibility of an organization and requires urgent action.
Design (PP4) - Answer✔The Professional Practice within the business continuity management
lifecycle that identifies and selects appropriate solutions to determine how continuity can be
achieved in the event of an incident.
Embedding (PP2) - Answer✔The Professional Practice that defines how to integrate business
continuity awareness and practice into business as usual activities.
Exercise - Answer✔The process to train for, assess, practice, and improve performance in an
organization.
Implementation (PP5) - Answer✔The Professional Practice within the business continuity
management lifecycle that implements the solutions agreed in the Design stage. It also includes
developing the business continuity plans and a response structure.
Incident - Answer✔A situation that might be, or could lead to, a disruption, loss, emergency or
crisis.
Interested party - Answer✔A person or organization that can affect, be affected by, or perceive
themselves to be affected by a decision or activity.
Invocation - Answer✔The act of declaring that an organization's business continuity
arrangements need to be put into effect in order to continue delivery of key products or
services.
Maximum acceptable outage (MAO) - Answer✔The time it would take for adverse impacts,
which might arise as a result of not providing a product/service or performing an activity, to
become unacceptable.
Maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPD) - Answer✔The time it would take for adverse
impacts, which might arise as a result of not providing a product/service or performing an
activity, to become unacceptable.
Minimum Business Continuity Objective (MBCO) - Answer✔The minimum level of services
and/or products that is acceptable to the organization to achieve its business objectives during
a disruption.
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