Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Question 1

What is Business Continuity (BC)?

Answer 1

Are the processes that enure the continuity of the organization’s critical infrastructure during and after and incident.

Question 2

What is Disaster Recovery (DR)?

Answer 2

An organization’s ability to restore business data and application after a disaster.

Question 3

What is Business Impact Analysis?

Answer 3

The systematic process that determines and evaluates the potential effects to critical busines operations following a disaster.

Question 4

List the 5 phases of the Business Impact Analysis process?

Answer 4

1) Initiation of the BIA.
2) Acquisition of Information
3) Analysis of Information
4) Documentation of Findings
5) Presentation of BIA Report to Management

Question 5

What are the following?
1) Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
2) Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Answer 5

1) The maximum amount of time that a computer, system, networ, or application can remain dysfunctional after a disaster.
2) The maximum time frame an organization loses data after an IT outage.

Question 6

Describe the following BC & DR Activities
1) Prevention
2) Response
3) Resumption
4) Recovery
5) Restoration

Answer 6

1) Involves actions taken to prevent a potential hazard from harming an organization.
2) A set of activities to reduce and limit the negative impact of the disaster.
3) The recommencement of business operations after an incident.
4) Actions taken to resume services on critical business services.
5) Repairing the old site or setting up a new site affected by the disaster.

Question 7

What is the BC Plan?

Answer 7

A comphrensive document to ensure the resilience against potential threats to allwos normal operations to continue under adverse conditions.