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Upon completing this assignment, you will be able to:
• Define the goals and objectives of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Identify where a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) fits within a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
• Identify mission critical applications and access to data requirements for a given scenario
• Perform a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) utilizing a qualitative assessment approach
• Create a Business Impact Analysis executive summary report for management

This assignment will require you to have a fundamental understanding of a general Business Continuity Plan (BCP) that will lead in to why a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is needed as the first step for a BCP. When performing a BIA, you are trying to assess and align the affected IT systems, applications, and resources to their required recovery time objectives (RTOs). The prioritization of the identified mission critical business functions will define what IT systems, applications, and resources are impacted. The RTO will drive what kind of business continuity and recovery steps are needed to maintain IT operations within the specified time frames.
The “mock” IT infrastructure of the organizationthat you will perform the BIA includes the following elements:
• 1 Headquarters location and 5 remote branch offices
• Headquarters users connect to LAN Switch 1 & 2 on departmental VLANs
• WAN cloud interconnecting all 6 locations
• Shared dedicated internet access
• Centrally located data center/server farm
• Remote access solution using VPN technology

The following presents the list of mission critical business functions and