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Module 5: Business Impact Analysis Flashcards

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organization’s ability to adapt to disruptions and incidents in order to maintain continuous operations and to protect the organization’s assets

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Business Resilience

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Business Resilience: What should CISA candidates be aware of?

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Alignment of:
1. Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Continuity Plan
2. DRP and BCP with the organization’s goals and risk tolerance

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is a critical step in developing the business continuity strategy and the subsequent implementation of
the risk countermeasures

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Business Impact Analysis

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Business Impact Analysis: BIA is most important when developing what?

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The business continuity plan

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In what order does risk assessment and business impact analysis happen?

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Risk Assessment first and then Business Impact Analysis

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Business Impact Analysis: BIA is used to evaluate the critical processes only and not the IT components themselves (T or F)

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False. It also take into consideration the it components supporting the processes

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Business Impact Analysis: What do BIAs aim to determine?

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  1. Time frames
  2. Priorities
  3. Resources
  4. Interdependencies
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Business Impact Analysis: We don’t need to do a BIA if we have done an extensive Risk Assessment already because it will be redundant (T or F)

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False. The rule of thumb is to double check always because less visible but vital components can be uncovered

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Business Impact Analysis: What do you need to check when IT activities are outsourced?

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  • SLAs
  • Warranties
  • Terms and Conditions
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Business Impact Analysis: To perform a BIA successfully what should one have?

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  1. Understanding of the ORganization
  2. Understanding of Key Business Processes
  3. Understanding of IT resources used
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Business Impact Analysis: To get a better understanding of the organization such as its IT resources and Key Business Processes, where can you get that information?

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Risk Assessment results

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Business Impact Analysis: BIA requires what, in terms of individuals?

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  1. High level of senior management support
  2. Extensive Involvement of IT and End-user Personnel
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Business Impact Analysis: To whom do you circulate the questionnaire?

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  1. Key Users in IT
  2. End-User
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Business Impact Analysis: What are the different approaches in performing BIA?

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  1. Questionnaire
  2. Interview with key users only
  3. Interview with IT personnel and End Users
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Business Impact Analysis: What type of auditing do these three approaches belong to?

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Participative Auditing

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Business Impact Analysis: What are the two cost factors to consider in a BIA?

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  1. Downtime Costs
  2. Alternative Recovery Strategies
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Business Impact Analysis: What is the relationship of downtime costs with time and cost?

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It is positively sloping

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Business Impact Analysis: Downtime costs flatten out at some point (T or F)

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True. This signifies the moment where the business process stops working or it can no longer function

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Business Impact Analysis: What is the relationship of alternative corrective measure with cost and time

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It is downward sloping

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Business Impact Analysis: The recovery cost has also many components most of which are flexible (T or F)

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False, they are rigid-inelastic

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Business Impact Analysis: Each possible strategy has a fixed cost (T or F)

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True

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Business Impact Analysis: Both Variable Costs and Fixed Costs depend on which strategy is implemented (T or F)

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True

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Business Impact Analysis: The curve of the sum is usually a? How can you find the optimal strategy using that curve?

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U curve. The bottom of the u curve represents the lowest cost strategy

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Criticality Analysis: What is the risk ranking based off?

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Likelihood and Impact

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Criticality Analysis: A critical classification’s tolerance to interruption is ____ and cost of interruption is ______

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Very low; Very high

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Criticality Analysis: Critical means that it can’t be performed unless replaced by ________

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Identical capabilities

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Criticality Analysis: Critical applications cannot be replaced by manual methods (T or F)

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True

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Criticality Analysis: This function can be performed manually but for a brief period only

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Vital

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Criticality Analysis: Vital operations must be restored within?

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5 days or less

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Criticality Analysis: This can be performed manually for an extended period of time

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Sensitive

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Criticality Analysis: Interruptions produce no cost to the company

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Nonsensitive

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