Questions & Answers!!!!
Activity or activities - CORRECT ANSWER -- One or more tasks undertaken by, or
for an organization, that produces or supports the delivery of one or more products
and services.
Analysis (PP3) - CORRECT ANSWER -- The Professional Practice within the
business continuity management lifecycle that reviews and assesses an organization
to identify its objectives, how it functions and the constraints of its operating
environment.
Audit - CORRECT ANSWER -- A systematic, independent and documented process
for obtaining evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which
the criteria are fulfilled.
Business Continuity (BC) - CORRECT ANSWER -- The capability of the organization
to continue delivery of products or services at acceptable pre-defined levels following
disruptive incident.
Business continuity management - CORRECT ANSWER -- A holistic management
process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to
business operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a
framework for building organizational resilience with the capability of an effective
response that safeguards the interests of its keystakeholders, reputation, brand and
value-creating activities.
Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lifecycle - CORRECT ANSWER -- The
ongoing cycle of activities of the business continuity programme, that build
organizational resilience.
Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) - CORRECT ANSWER -- Part of
the overall management system that establishes, implements, operates, monitors,
reviews, maintains and improves business continuity.
Business continuity plan (BCP) - CORRECT ANSWER -- Documented procedures
that guide organizations to respond, recover, resume, and restore to a pre-defined
level of operation following disruption.
Business continuity programme - CORRECT ANSWER -- The ongoing management
and governance process supported by top management and appropriately resourced
to implement and maintain business continuity management.
, Business continuity requirements - CORRECT ANSWER -- The time frames and
resources, and capabilities necessary to continue to deliver the prioritised products,
services, processes, and activities following a disruption.
Business impact analysis (BIA) - CORRECT ANSWER -- The process of analysing
activities and the effect that a business disruption might have upon them.
Competence - CORRECT ANSWER -- The ability to apply knowledge and skills to
achieve intended results.
Continual improvement - CORRECT ANSWER -- A recurring activity to enhance
performance.
Crisis - CORRECT ANSWER -- A situation with a high level of uncertainty that
disrupts the core activities and/or credibility of an organization and requires urgent
action.
Design (PP4) - CORRECT ANSWER -- The Professional Practice within the
business continuity management lifecycle that identifies and selects appropriate
solutions to determine how continuity can be achieved in the event of an incident.
Embedding (PP2) - CORRECT ANSWER -- The Professional Practice that defines
how to integrate business continuity awareness and practice into business as usual
activities.
Exercise - CORRECT ANSWER -- The process to train for, assess, practice, and
improve performance in an organization.
Implementation (PP5) - CORRECT ANSWER -- The Professional Practice within the
business continuity management lifecycle that implements the solutions agreed in
the Design stage. It also includes developing the business continuity plans and a
response structure.
Incident - CORRECT ANSWER -- A situation that might be, or could lead to, a
disruption, loss, emergency or crisis.
Interested party - CORRECT ANSWER -- A person or organization that can affect,
be affected by, or perceive themselves to be affected by a decision or activity.
Invocation - CORRECT ANSWER -- The act of declaring that an organization's
business continuity arrangements need to be put into effect in order to continue
delivery of key products or services.
Maximum acceptable outage (MAO) - CORRECT ANSWER -- The time it would take
for adverse impacts, which might arise as a result of not providing a product/service
or performing an activity, to become unacceptable.
Maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPD) - CORRECT ANSWER -- The time it
would take for adverse impacts, which might arise as a result of not providing a
product/service or performing an activity, to become unacceptable.