Business Continuity Answer Part 1

 Module 11 - Business Continuity True / False 1. Like disaster recovery planning, the identification of critical business functions and the resources to support them are the cornerstone of the process used to create the business continuity plan.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: True 2. All members of the business continuity teams should have only one copy of the business continuity plan readily available in order to keep update errors from causing issues.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: False 3. Business continuity planners do not need detailed knowledge of existing security controls because preventive controls implemented to safeguard online and physical information storage have little impact on their recovery.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: False  4. Thorough recovery strategies ensure that the company’s operations will be recovered quickly and effectively following a disruption.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: True 5. The term "clearing" means a process of moving in to temporary facilities and acquiring them from their owners or managers.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: False 6. The business continuity team can expect that its functions will always be generally the same.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: True 7. Employees affected by a disaster are relocated to the business continuity site, and as they arrive, they are organized and then directed to begin work.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: True 8. Once the decision is made to close down the alternate site, and in preparation for relocating to the primary site, the team should immediately conduct the after-action review.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: False 9. A business continuity plan is a single unified plan.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: False  10. Reputable business continuity certifications rely on a “Common Body of Knowledge” (CBK). The BCI and DRII CBKs include project initiation and management, risk evaluation and control, and incident response strategies.  a. True  b. False ANSWER: False Multiple Choice 11. The ____ is the amount of time that a business can tolerate losing capabilities until alternate capabilities are available.  a. incidence response time  b. disaster recovery time  c. recovery time objective  d. reaction time objective ANSWER: c 12. The ____ is the point in the past to which the recovered applications and data at the alternate infrastructure will be restored.  a. recovery point objective  b. relocation point objective  c. simulation point objective   ANSWER: d. warm site objective a 13. A business continuity _____ is responsible for establishing the core business functions needed to sustain critical business operations.  a. systems recovery team  b. logistics team  c. operations team  d. applications recovery team ANSWER: c 14. Essential business continuity supplies needed at an alternate site include portable computers, backup copies of data, software media, and ____.  a. training documents  b. licenses  c. copiers  d. fax capabilities ANSWER: b  15. Measures that reduce the effects of system disruptions and can reduce continuity life-cycle costs are known as _____.  a. preventive controls  b. BC requirements  c. BC exercises  d. predictive controls ANSWER: a 16. The ____ section of the business continuity policy identifies the organizational units and groups of employees to which the policy applies.  a. scope  b. training requirements  c. roles and responsibilities  d. special considerations ANSWER: a 17. The ____ section of the business continuity policy identifies the roles and responsibilities of the key players in the business continuity operation.  a. scope  b. education requirements  c. roles and responsibilities  d. training requirements ANSWER: c  18. In the ____ section of the business continuity policy, the training requirements for the various employee groups are defined and highlighted.  a. scope  b. training requirements  c. roles and responsibilities  d. special considerations ANSWER: b 19. The ____ section of the business continuity policy provides an overview of the information storage and retrieval plans of the organization.  a. scope  b. training requirements  c. roles and responsibilities  d. special considerations ANSWER: d  20. In the ____ phase of the business continuity plan, the organization specifies what type of relocation services are desired and what type of data management strategies are deployed to support relocation.  a. preparation for BC actions  b. training requirements  c. roles and responsibilities  d. special considerations ANSWER: a 21. What phase of the business continuity plan specifies how and under what conditions the organization moves its operations from the primary site to the alternate site?  a. preparation for BC actions  b. training requirements  c. relocation to the alternate site  d. special considerations ANSWER: c 22. The ____ is the group responsible for initiating the occupation of the alternate facility.  a. advance party  b. disaster recovery team  c. applications development team  d. forensic team ANSWER: a  23. When scheduling employee moves to return to the primary site, which of the following is true?  a. All business functions return at the same time.  b. The most critical functions always return first.  c. When possible the organization may want to wait for a natural break in the business week, like the weekend  d. The least critical functions always return first. ANSWER: c 24. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency has developed a support Web site at ____ that includes a suite of tools to guide the development of disaster recovery and business continuity plans.  a. www.disaster.gov  b. www.dr-bc.gov  c. www.prepare.gov  d. www.ready.gov ANSWER: d  25. When implementing a business continuity plan, an organization reaches a predetermined state, known as a(n) ____, at when the responsible executive indicates that the organization will relocate to a preselected alternate site.  a. trigger point  b. contingency point  c. moving point  d. critical point ANSWER: a 26. Implementation of the business continuity plan involves each of the following steps EXCEPT:  a. relocation to the alternate site  b. establishment of operations at the alternate site  c. return to the primary site or new permanent alternate site  d. finalizing testing of the BC plan just prior to use ANSWER: d 27. The decision to move specific critical functions under the business continuity plan involves deciding _____.  a. which specific alternate site the organization uses  b. which critical business functions it implements  c. Both a and b are involved.  d. Neither a nor b are involved. ANSWER: c