Is3110 Week4 Lab1
Week 4 Lab: Assessment Worksheet
Performing a Business Impact Analysis for an IT Infrastructure
Overview
Answer the following questions, specific to the creation and focus of Business Impact Analysis as well as BCP documentation.
Lab Assessment Questions & Answers
1 What is the goal and purpose of a BIA?
To identify which business units, operations, and processes are crucial to the survival of the business.
2 Why is a business impact analysis (BIA) an important first step in defining a business continuity plan (BCP)?
BIA identifies what is crucial which sets the path for what will be included in the BCP.
3 How do risk management and risk assessment relate to a business impact analysis for an IT infrastructure?
Risk Management/Risk Assessment identify risks/vulnerabilities to the 7 domains of an IT infrastructure. BIA is basically doing the same thing but at the entire organization level.
4 True or False - If the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) metric does not equal the Recovery Time Objective (RTO), you may potentially lose data or not have data backed-up to recover. This represents a gap in potential lost or unrecoverable data.
False
5 What questions would you have for executive management prior to finalizing a BIA report?
What is the Maximum Acceptable Outage of a specific server or service?
What are some critical business functions?
What are the recovery objectives?
6 How does a BCP help mitigate risk?
Mitigates risk by ensuring the organization is better prepared for disasters.
7 What kind of risk does a BCP help mitigate?
It is mitigating the risk of disaster that either destroys the server or building the server is in.
8 If you have business liability insurance, asset replacement insurance, and natural disaster insurance, do you still need a BCP or DRP? Why or why not?
Yes you still need a BCP/DRP as insurance will reimburse you money to help rebuild, but they cannot provide you company data and that is what is needed for survivability.
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Performing a Business Impact Analysis for an IT Infrastructure
Overview
Answer the following questions, specific to the creation and focus of Business Impact Analysis as well as BCP documentation.
Lab Assessment Questions & Answers
1 What is the goal and purpose of a BIA?
To identify which business units, operations, and processes are crucial to the survival of the business.
2 Why is a business impact analysis (BIA) an important first step in defining a business continuity plan (BCP)?
BIA identifies what is crucial which sets the path for what will be included in the BCP.
3 How do risk management and risk assessment relate to a business impact analysis for an IT infrastructure?
Risk Management/Risk Assessment identify risks/vulnerabilities to the 7 domains of an IT infrastructure. BIA is basically doing the same thing but at the entire organization level.
4 True or False - If the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) metric does not equal the Recovery Time Objective (RTO), you may potentially lose data or not have data backed-up to recover. This represents a gap in potential lost or unrecoverable data.
False
5 What questions would you have for executive management prior to finalizing a BIA report?
What is the Maximum Acceptable Outage of a specific server or service?
What are some critical business functions?
What are the recovery objectives?
6 How does a BCP help mitigate risk?
Mitigates risk by ensuring the organization is better prepared for disasters.
7 What kind of risk does a BCP help mitigate?
It is mitigating the risk of disaster that either destroys the server or building the server is in.
8 If you have business liability insurance, asset replacement insurance, and natural disaster insurance, do you still need a BCP or DRP? Why or why not?
Yes you still need a BCP/DRP as insurance will reimburse you money to help rebuild, but they cannot provide you company data and that is what is needed for survivability.
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