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Lab #6 – Assessment Worksheet
Perform Business Continuity Implementation Planning
Course Name and Number:
CSS150-1401A-05 Introduction to Computer
Lab Due Date:
Overview
In this lab, you were asked to begin the business continuity planning process for an e-commerce company,
Online Goodies. You reviewed the key business functions and a prioritized list of impacted IT systems, a pplications, and data provided by your supervisor. You also compared the components of the major documentation required by the business continuity planning process: risk analysis, business impact analysis, business continuity plan, disaster recovery plan, and the business continuity implementation plan.
Perform Business Continuity
Implementation Planning
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Lab Assessment Questions & Answers 1.
What is the difference between a risk analysis (RA) and a business impact analysis (BIA)?
Risk analysis is often identifying the potential threats and the associated vulnerabilities to the organizations .Risk analysis doesn’t view the organization from the mission critical Business Process point of view. More over BIA perceives the organization from the impact that is going to occur for an organization if the critical business processes are interrupted or tampered.
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What is the difference between a disaster recovery plan (DRP) and a business continuity plan (BCP)?
Disaster recovery is the older of the 2 functions. DR planning is an essential part of business planning that – too often – gets neglected. Part of this has to do with the fact that making a Disaster
Recovery plan requires a lot of time and attention from busy managers and executives from every functional department within the company. Business continuity is a newer term which was first popularized as a response to the Y2K bug. In order to stop your company from bleeding money in these situations, you need a plan that will allow the organization to