Week 13 BC - DR

The main difference between Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is that DR focuses on keeping the business operational during a disaster, while BC focuses on restoring data access and IT infrastructure after a disaster.

• True

• False

This is the first step in Business Continuity Planning:

• Disaster Preparation

• Project Scope and Planning

• Approval and Implementation

• Continuity planning

• Business Impact Assessment

Select the staff that should be part of a Business Continuity Team (one or more)

• representatives of business core services

• IT subject-matter experts

• Physical security and facilities team

• Attorneys

• HR and public relations

In Business Continuity Planning, when performing Business Impact Assessment, what unit of measurement should be used to assign quantitative values to assets in the Priority Identification?

• Monetary

• Utility

• Importance

• Time

Which one of the following concerns is not suitable for quantitative measurement during the Business Impact Assessment?

• Loss of a data center

• Damage to a vehicle

• Negative publicity

• Laptop stolen

What Business Impact Assessment metric can be used to express "the longest time a business function can be unavailable without causing irreparable harm to the organization"?

• Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

• Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)

• Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

• Work Recovery Time (WRT) 

Which one of the following Business Impact Analysis terms identifies "the amount of money a business expects to lose to a given risk each year"?

• Asset Value (AV)

• Exposure factor (EF)

• Single Loss Expectancy (SLE)

• Annual Rate of Occurrence (ARO)

• Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE)

The main difference between a Disaster Recovery (DR) and Incident Response (IR) plan is that the ​ (a) ________ plan details the procedures used to detect and stop an imminent threat to the org’s IT assets while the ​ (b) ________  is designed to rebuild, recover, and restore damaged assets to full operational capacity.

• a) Incident Response and b) Disaster Recovery

• a) Disaster Recovery and b) Incident Response

• a) Incident Response and b) Incident Response

Choose the description related to Hot Site:

• It is a DR location that is set up and ready to go -- that is, one can arrive and continue to work immediately because this alternate IT processing facility can be brought online within a very short time.

• It is an intermediary facility where equipment is available and set up for you, but you must load or restore your latest data to the system.

• It is essentially available space with little, if anything, set up in it. When you arrive at this site you need to set up the equipment, make all connections, load the software, etc.

Choose the description related to Warm Site:

• It is a DR location that is set up and ready to go -- that is, one can arrive and continue to work immediately because this alternate IT processing facility can be brought online within a very short time.

• It is an intermediary facility where equipment is available and set up for you, but you must load or restore your latest data to the system.

• It is essentially available space with little, if anything, set up in it. When you arrive at this site you need to set up the equipment, make all connections, load the software, etc.