DRII CBCP CORE EXAM TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Hot Site - ✔✔Fully equipped and ready immediately; highest cost.
✔✔Warm Site - ✔✔Partially equipped; moderate recovery time.
✔✔Cold Site - ✔✔Empty space; cheapest; longest recovery.
✔✔Manual Workarounds - ✔✔Temporary non-technology processes.
✔✔Redundant Systems - ✔✔Duplicate infrastructure enabling rapid failover.
✔✔Geographic Diversity - ✔✔Locating critical assets in separate regions.
✔✔Supplier Diversification - ✔✔Multiple vendors to avoid single points of failure.
✔✔Mobile Recovery Units - ✔✔Portable recovery facilities.
✔✔Cloud Recovery - ✔✔Flexible, scalable recovery via cloud.
✔✔Leadership Approval - ✔✔All strategies must be approved by senior leadership.
✔✔Cost-Benefit Analysis - ✔✔Required to justify strategy cost against downtime
impact.
✔✔What Drives Strategy? - ✔✔RTO/RPO from the BIA.
✔✔Incident Preparedness & Response - ✔✔Life safety-focused activities that occur
BEFORE BC activation.
✔✔Incident Response vs BC - ✔✔Response protects people; BC restores business.
✔✔Life Safety Priority - ✔✔Evacuation, shelter-in-place, lockdown.
✔✔Evacuation - ✔✔Removing personnel from danger.
✔✔Shelter-in-Place - ✔✔Stay inside due to external hazard.
✔✔Lockdown - ✔✔Restrict movement due to internal threat.
✔✔Incident Command System - ✔✔Standard emergency command structure.
, ✔✔Incident Commander - ✔✔Person responsible for overall emergency coordination.
✔✔Public Information Officer - ✔✔Manages communication with media and public.
✔✔Safety Officer - ✔✔Ensures safe operations during incidents.
✔✔Liaison Officer - ✔✔Coordinates with police, fire, EMS, etc.
✔✔ICS Sections - ✔✔Operations, Planning, Logistics, Finance/Admin.
✔✔Before BC Activation - ✔✔Life safety ALWAYS comes first.
✔✔Scenario Questions - ✔✔Evacuation = fire; Lockdown = active threat; Shelter-in-
place = chemical spill.
✔✔Plan Development & Implementation - ✔✔Developing usable BC plans with
actionable procedures.
✔✔Plan Requirements - ✔✔Must be concise, checklist-based, and actionable.
✔✔Plan Contents - ✔✔Purpose, scope, roles, triggers, procedures, communication
steps, recovery tasks.
✔✔Activation Criteria - ✔✔Conditions for activating the BC plan.
✔✔Team Structure - ✔✔Roles such as Team Lead, Communications Lead, Recovery
Coordinator.
✔✔Checklists - ✔✔Provide staff step-by-step guidance during stress.
✔✔Communication Procedures - ✔✔How teams communicate during activation.
✔✔Recovery Procedures - ✔✔Detailed steps to restore operations.
✔✔Plan Distribution - ✔✔Must be controlled, secure, and versioned.
✔✔Why Plans Fail - ✔✔Too long, unclear, or not actionable.
✔✔Activation triggers - ✔✔Elements that initiate the business continuity plan.
✔✔Awareness & Training Programs - ✔✔Ensures BC knowledge and capability across
the organization.
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Hot Site - ✔✔Fully equipped and ready immediately; highest cost.
✔✔Warm Site - ✔✔Partially equipped; moderate recovery time.
✔✔Cold Site - ✔✔Empty space; cheapest; longest recovery.
✔✔Manual Workarounds - ✔✔Temporary non-technology processes.
✔✔Redundant Systems - ✔✔Duplicate infrastructure enabling rapid failover.
✔✔Geographic Diversity - ✔✔Locating critical assets in separate regions.
✔✔Supplier Diversification - ✔✔Multiple vendors to avoid single points of failure.
✔✔Mobile Recovery Units - ✔✔Portable recovery facilities.
✔✔Cloud Recovery - ✔✔Flexible, scalable recovery via cloud.
✔✔Leadership Approval - ✔✔All strategies must be approved by senior leadership.
✔✔Cost-Benefit Analysis - ✔✔Required to justify strategy cost against downtime
impact.
✔✔What Drives Strategy? - ✔✔RTO/RPO from the BIA.
✔✔Incident Preparedness & Response - ✔✔Life safety-focused activities that occur
BEFORE BC activation.
✔✔Incident Response vs BC - ✔✔Response protects people; BC restores business.
✔✔Life Safety Priority - ✔✔Evacuation, shelter-in-place, lockdown.
✔✔Evacuation - ✔✔Removing personnel from danger.
✔✔Shelter-in-Place - ✔✔Stay inside due to external hazard.
✔✔Lockdown - ✔✔Restrict movement due to internal threat.
✔✔Incident Command System - ✔✔Standard emergency command structure.
, ✔✔Incident Commander - ✔✔Person responsible for overall emergency coordination.
✔✔Public Information Officer - ✔✔Manages communication with media and public.
✔✔Safety Officer - ✔✔Ensures safe operations during incidents.
✔✔Liaison Officer - ✔✔Coordinates with police, fire, EMS, etc.
✔✔ICS Sections - ✔✔Operations, Planning, Logistics, Finance/Admin.
✔✔Before BC Activation - ✔✔Life safety ALWAYS comes first.
✔✔Scenario Questions - ✔✔Evacuation = fire; Lockdown = active threat; Shelter-in-
place = chemical spill.
✔✔Plan Development & Implementation - ✔✔Developing usable BC plans with
actionable procedures.
✔✔Plan Requirements - ✔✔Must be concise, checklist-based, and actionable.
✔✔Plan Contents - ✔✔Purpose, scope, roles, triggers, procedures, communication
steps, recovery tasks.
✔✔Activation Criteria - ✔✔Conditions for activating the BC plan.
✔✔Team Structure - ✔✔Roles such as Team Lead, Communications Lead, Recovery
Coordinator.
✔✔Checklists - ✔✔Provide staff step-by-step guidance during stress.
✔✔Communication Procedures - ✔✔How teams communicate during activation.
✔✔Recovery Procedures - ✔✔Detailed steps to restore operations.
✔✔Plan Distribution - ✔✔Must be controlled, secure, and versioned.
✔✔Why Plans Fail - ✔✔Too long, unclear, or not actionable.
✔✔Activation triggers - ✔✔Elements that initiate the business continuity plan.
✔✔Awareness & Training Programs - ✔✔Ensures BC knowledge and capability across
the organization.
