Outcomes addressed in this activity:
Unit Outcomes:
- Explain business impact assessment.
- Analyze continuity planning.
- Draft business continuity documentation.
Course Outcomes:
IT410-4: Determine incident prevention and response strategies.
GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.
Purpose
In this assignment, you will examine how organizations ensure a sustained viability when unforeseen emergencies take place through a comprehensive business continuity plan.
Assignment Instructions
Justify Your Answers
Answer the following 12 questions by selecting the single best answer for each. Using your course materials and/or other credible resources, provide a 50- to 100-word explanation of why you chose your answer for each question. Please cite your sources for your answers from your course materials or other credible resources.
- Which of the following business continuity exercises can be quite involved and should be performed annually?
- disaster simulation testing
- table-top exercise
- structured walkthrough
- Which plan is written to attempt to prevent a disaster from impacting the organization and/or to lessen a disaster’s impact?
- disaster recovery plan
- business impact analysis
- business continuity plan
- While developing the business continuity plan, your team must create a plan that ensures that normal operation can be resumed in a timely manner. Which element is your team creating?
- vulnerability analysis
- disaster recovery plan
- business continuity plan
- Of the following choices, what is the best form of anti-malware protection?
- multiple solutions on each system
- a single solution throughout the organization
- anti-malware protection at several locations
- What is the first step of a business continuity plan (BCP)?
- business organization analysis
- select the BCP team
- resource requirements analysis
- What task of BCP bridges the gap between the business impact assessment and the continuity planning phases?
- likelihood assessment
- provisions and processes
- strategy development
- Which business continuity plan element is primarily concerned with minimizing property damage and preventing loss of life?
- disaster recovery plan
- vulnerability analysis
- business impact analysis (BIA)
- risk analysis
- You need to ensure that all systems, networks, and major applications can be recovered. What should you create or perform?
- vulnerability analysis
- contingency plan
- risk analysis
- business impact analysis (BIA)
- Which of the following is likely to be the most significant challenge with developing an incident management plan?
- lack of management support
- intrusion by hackers
- security response procedures undertaken to detect brute force attacks
- If a forensic copy of a hard drive is needed, the copy data are most defensible from a legal standpoint if which of the following is used?
- an encrypted copy of all contents of a hard drive
- a bit-by-bit copy of all data
- a compressed copy of all contents of a hard drive
- What is the capability to effectively manage unexpected events with the objective of minimizing impacts and maintaining and restoring normal operations?
- incident response
- incident management
- control objectives
- What is the operational capability to identify, prepare for, and respond to incidents?
- risk tolerance
- quality assurance
- incident response
Assignment Requirements
Only the title page, in-text citations, and reference page are required to be formatted according to APA standards for this assignment.
