Chapter 3 Business Continuity Planning

Question 1

What are the four steps of business continuity planning?

Answer 1

–project scope and planning
–business impact analysis
–continuity planning
–approval and implementation

Question 2

What is the difference between MTD and RTO?

Answer 2

Maximum tolerable downtime is the max amount of time the business can tolerate downtime before suffering irreparable harm.

The recovery time objective is the amount of time in which you can feasibly recover the function in the event of a disruption.

Question 3

What is the RPO?

Answer 3

Defines the point in time before the incident where the organization should be able to recover data from a critical business process.