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.
Contingency plan
B.
Business continuity plan
C.
Crisis communication plan
D.
Disaster recovery 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
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
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 monitoringprocess 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
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 the loss of data.