CIM Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity 2

Question 1

What is the primary purpose of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) in a business continuity program?

Accepted Answer

To identify and prioritize critical business functions and quantify the impact of their disruption

Answer

A BIA identifies critical business functions, estimates financial and operational impacts of disruption, and informs recovery priority and resource allocation.

Question 2

Which term describes the maximum tolerable length of time that a business process can be offline before causing unacceptable harm?

Accepted Answer

Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)

Answer

MTD (also called Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption) defines the absolute outer limit of acceptable downtime for a business process.

Question 3

During a tabletop exercise, participants discover their DR plan references a vendor hotline that no longer exists. What should be the immediate corrective action?

Accepted Answer

Update the plan with current vendor contact information and reassign ownership for keeping it current

Answer

Tabletop exercises are designed to surface exactly these gaps; the correct response is to document and remediate the discrepancy and assign ongoing ownership.

Question 4

A company replicates data to a secondary site every four hours. If a disaster occurs, what is the worst-case data loss scenario?

Accepted Answer

Up to four hours of data

Answer

The Recovery Point Objective is determined by the replication interval; with four-hour cycles, up to four hours of transactions could be lost.

Question 5

Which recovery site type offers the fastest time-to-operational but also carries the highest ongoing cost?

Accepted Answer

Hot site

Answer

A hot site is a fully equipped, staffed, and continuously synchronized duplicate facility that can assume operations within minutes but incurs significant recurring costs.

(CIM) Certified Incident Manager Practice Test

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CIM Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity 2