BCI Case Analysis & Practical Application 2

Question 1

A financial services firm discovers its primary data center is flooded. The RTO for core banking is 4 hours. Which action should the BC team take FIRST?

Accepted Answer

Invoke the IT disaster recovery plan and activate the alternate site

Answer

Activating the alternate site directly addresses the RTO obligation and restores critical operations within the required timeframe.

Question 2

During a tabletop exercise, a team realizes their contact list contains outdated mobile numbers. What does this reveal about the BC program?

Accepted Answer

Maintenance procedures for plan documentation are inadequate

Answer

Outdated contact information indicates that the plan maintenance cycle is not keeping documentation current.

Question 3

A hospital's emergency generator fails during a power outage. The BC plan assumed generator availability as a given dependency. This situation best illustrates which planning gap?

Accepted Answer

Failure to identify single points of failure within recovery resources

Answer

Treating the generator as a guaranteed resource without testing or redundancy represents a failure to address single points of failure.

Question 4

A logistics company tests its BC plan annually but has not updated it since a major supplier was replaced. Which BCI good practice principle is being violated?

Accepted Answer

Ongoing maintenance to reflect organizational change

Answer

BC plans must be updated whenever significant organizational changes, such as supplier changes, occur to remain valid.

Question 5

A manufacturing plant's BC plan identifies 'assemble incident management team' as the first response step. During an actual event, team members are unreachable. What should the plan have included?

Accepted Answer

Cascading call trees with named alternates for each role

Answer

Cascading call trees with alternates ensure roles can be filled even when primary contacts are unavailable.

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BCI Case Analysis & Practical Application 2