Business Continuity Planning Flashcards
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Which DRII Professional Practice addresses the process of identifying exposures that could lead to a business interruption?
Answer: Risk Evaluation and Control
DRII Professional Practice 2, Risk Evaluation and Control, covers identifying, assessing, and managing risks that could cause business interruptions.
A company decides to split operations between two active data centers so each can absorb the other's load if one fails. This strategy is called:
Answer: Active-active configuration
An active-active configuration means both sites run production workloads simultaneously and can absorb each other's traffic if one fails, with near-zero downtime.
In the context of supply chain continuity, what is 'supplier diversification'?
Answer: Sourcing the same material from multiple independent vendors to reduce dependency risk
Supplier diversification reduces single-vendor dependency by qualifying multiple independent sources for critical materials or services.
Which metric answers the question: 'At what point in time must systems be restored to avoid unacceptable data loss?'
Answer: Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
RPO defines the maximum age of data that must be recovered from backup storage for normal operations to resume, essentially dictating backup frequency.
When should a Business Continuity Plan be reviewed and updated?
Answer: Periodically and after significant organizational changes, tests, or incidents
BCP maintenance must be ongoing — triggered by scheduled reviews, organizational changes, exercise results, and post-incident lessons learned.
A 'call tree' (phone tree) is used in BCP primarily for:
Answer: Rapidly notifying personnel during an emergency activation
A call tree is a tiered notification structure where each contact reaches a defined set of others, ensuring rapid cascade of emergency communications.
The concept of 'resilience' in business continuity differs from 'recovery' in that resilience refers to:
Answer: The ability to absorb disruption and continue operating with minimal impact
Resilience is the capacity to withstand disruptions and maintain operations during them, whereas recovery is the process of restoring normalcy after an interruption.