Ch. 3

Question 1

What is a business continuity plan?
A. Response to any events that result in an interruption to critical business activities
B. Actions necessary to recover resources after a disaster
C. Resource requirements analysis
D. Legal and regulatory plan

Answer 1

A. Response to any events that result in an interruption to critical business activities

Question 2

Which of these are not apart of the anatomy of a BCP?
A. Identify the scope of the plan
B. Identify key business areas
C. Determine acceptable downtime for each critical function.
D. Determine development infrastructure scope.

Answer 2

D. Determine development infrastructure scope

Question 3

What is the term used to describe the responsibility of a firm's officers and directors to ensure that adequate measures are in place to minimize the effect of a disaster on the organizations continued viability?
A. Corporate responsbility
B. Disaster requirement
C. Due diligence
D. Going concern responsbility

Answer 3

C. Due Diligence

Question 4

What unit of measurement should be used to assign quantitative values to assets in the priority identification phase of the business impact assessment?     
A. Monetary
B. Utility
C. Importance
D. Time

Answer 4

A. Monetary

Question 5

Which one of the following BIA terms identifies the amount of money a business expects to lose to a given risk each year? 
A. ARO
B. SLE
C. ALE
D. EF

Answer 5

C. ALE

Question 6

You are a member of the team that has been selected to create your organizations business continuity plan. What is the most vital document in this plan?
A. Disaster recovery plan
B. Vulnerability analysis
C. Business impact analysis (BIA)
D. Occupant emergency plan (OEP)

Answer 6

C. Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

Question 7

Your organization has decided that a comprehensive business continuity plan needs to be developed. You have been tasked with the initiation of this project. Which step should be completed during the initiation phase?
A. Identify preventative controls
B. Conduct the business impact analysis (BIA)
C. Develop recovery strategies
D. Develop the continuinity planning policy statement.

Answer 7

D. Develop the continuity planning policy statement.

Question 8

During business continuity planning, you need to obtain the single loss expectancy (SLE) of the company’s file server. Which formula should you use to determine this?
A. asset value x exposure factor (EF)
B. asset value x annualized rate of occurence (ARO)
C. Exposure factor (EF) x annualized rate of occurence (ARO)
D. Annualized loss expectancy (ALE) x annualized rate of occurence (ARO)

Answer 8

A. Asset Value x exposure factor (EF)

Question 9

Which role is considered the leader of the business continuity plan committee and is responsible for the overall success of the business continuity plan? 
A. IT manager
B. Security Manager
C. Disaster recovery manager
D. Business continuity coordinator.

Answer 9

B. Security Manager

Question 10

Which resource should you protect first when designing continuity plan provisions and process?
A. Physical plant
B. Infrastructure
C. FInancial 
D. People

Answer 10

D. people