PP3 - Business Impact Analysis

There are four types of BIA, which example is - INCORRECT?

• Activity
• Product and service
• Process
• Scoping

The BIA identifies the urgency of each activity undertaken by the organization by<br />assessing the?

• Impact over time
• Impact vs Outcome
• Impact over probability
• Impact vs risk

Which BIA is designed to identify and prioritise the activities that deliver the most urgent<br />products and services

• Process
• Activity
• Initial
• Product and Service

Which BIA is designed to determine the process or processes required for the delivery of<br />the organization’s prioritised products and services.

• Process
• Activity
• Initial
• Product and Service

Depending on its size, complexity and type, an organization may choose?

• Not to conduct a BIA
• To defer the analysis phase of the BCM Lifecycle
• To combine different types of BIA<br />
• To conduct an initial BIA only

Products and services are defined as?

• Beneficial outcomes provided by an organization to its top management, suppliers<br />and customers
• Beneficial outcomes provided by an organization to its customers, recipients and interested parties
• Beneficial outcomes provided by an organization to its employees, agency staff and<br />contractors
• Beneficial outcomes provided by an organization to its shareholders and interested<br />parties

A process is described as?

• A set of interacting activities which transforms inputs to outputs
• A set of interrelated or interacting activities which transforms inputs to outputs
• A set of interrelated or interacting processes which transforms outputs into inputs
• A set of interrelated or interacting processes which transforms inputs to outputs

The terms maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPD) is used to describe?

• The period of time following an incident within which a product or service must be<br />resumed, or activity must be resumed, or resources must be recovered
• Activities to which priority must be given following an incident in order to mitigate<br />impacts
• Process or processes required for the delivery of the organization’s prioritised<br />products and services
• 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

Recovery time objective (RTO) is described as?

• The period of time following an incident within which a product or service must be<br />resumed, or activity must be resumed, or resources must be recovered
• Activities to which priority must be given following an incident in order to mitigate<br />impacts
• Process or processes required for the delivery of the organization’s prioritised<br />products and services
• The time it would take for adverse impacts, which might arise as a result of not<br />providing a product/service or performing an activity, to become unacceptable

When conducting a BIA, the following points should be considered – EXCEPT

• A consistent approach to performing the BIA
• Impacts must be precisely determined and cannot be estimated.
• Only relevant information to be used in the analysis should be collected
• The scope of the business continuity programme can be clarified