Which
of the following plans is designed to protect critical business processes from natural or man-made
failures or disasters and the resultant loss of capital due to the unavailability of normal business
processes?
A.
Disaster recovery plan
B.
Contingency plan
C.
Business continuity plan
D.
Crisis communication plan
Explanation:
The business continuity plan is designed to protect critical business processes from
natural or man-made failures or disasters and the
resultant loss of capital due to the unavailability of normal business processes.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is the creation and validation of a practiced logistical plan for
how an organization will recover and restore
partially or completely interrupted critical (urgent) functions within a predetermined time after a
disaster or extended disruption. The logistical
plan is called a business continuity plan.
Answer option D is incorrect. The crisis communication plan can be broadly defined as the plan for
the exchange of information before, during,
or after a crisis event. It is considered as a sub-specialty of the public relations profession that is
designed to protect and defend an
individual, company, or organization facing a public challenge to its reputation.
The aim of crisis communication plan is to assist organizations to achieve continuity of critical
business processes and information flows under
crisis, disaster or event driven circumstances.
Answer option B is incorrect. A contingency plan is a plan devised for a specific situation when
things could go wrong. Contingency plans are
often devised by governments or businesses who want to be prepared for anything that could
happen. Contingency plans include specific
strategies and actions to deal with specific variances to assumptions resulting in a particular
problem, emergency, or state of affairs. They also
include a monitoring process and “triggers” for initiating planned actions. They are required to help
governments, businesses, or individuals to
recover from serious incidents in the minimum time with minimum cost and disruption.
Answer option A is incorrect. A disaster recovery plan should contain data, hardware, and software
that can be critical for a business. It
should also include the plan for sudden loss such as hard disc crash. The business should use backup
and data recovery utilities to limit theloss of data.