CBCI - GPG GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND EXAM
2024 QUESTIONS & VERIFIED ANSWERS
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Activity or activities - ANSWER-One or more tasks undertaken by, or for an organization, that produces or supports the delivery of one or more products and services.
Analysis (PP3) - ANSWER-The Professional Practice within the business continuity management lifecycle that reviews and assesses an organization to identify its objectives, how it functions and the constraints of its operating environment.
Audit - ANSWER-A systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which the criteria are fulfilled.
Business Continuity (BC) - ANSWER-The capability of the organization to continue delivery of products or services at acceptable pre-defined levels following disruptive incident.
Business continuity management - ANSWER-A holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a framework for building organizational resilience with the capability of an effective response that safeguards the interests of its keystakeholders, reputation, brand and value- creating activities.
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Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lifecycle - ANSWER-The ongoing cycle of activities of the business continuity programme, that build organizational resilience.
Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) - ANSWER-Part of the overall management system that establishes, implements, operates, monitors, reviews, maintains and improves business continuity.
Business continuity plan (BCP) - ANSWER-Documented procedures that guide organizations to respond, recover, resume, and restore to a pre-defined level of operation following disruption.
Business continuity programme - ANSWER-The ongoing management and governance process supported by top management and appropriately resourced to implement and maintain business continuity management.
Business continuity requirements - ANSWER-The time frames and resources, and capabilities necessary to continue to deliver the prioritised products, services, processes, and activities following a disruption.
Business impact analysis (BIA) - ANSWER-The process of analysing activities and the effect that a business disruption might have upon them.
Competence - ANSWER-The ability to apply knowledge and skills to achieve intended results.
Continual improvement - ANSWER-A recurring activity to enhance performance.
Crisis - ANSWER-A situation with a high level of uncertainty that disrupts the core activities and/or credibility of an organization and requires urgent action. 2 / 3
Design (PP4) - ANSWER-The Professional Practice within the business continuity management lifecycle that identifies and selects appropriate solutions to determine how continuity can be achieved in the event of an incident.
Embedding (PP2) - ANSWER-The Professional Practice that defines how to integrate business continuity awareness and practice into business as usual activities.
Exercise - ANSWER-The process to train for, assess, practice, and improve performance in an organization.
Implementation (PP5) - ANSWER-The Professional Practice within the business continuity management lifecycle that implements the solutions agreed in the Design stage. It also includes developing the business continuity plans and a response structure.
Incident - ANSWER-A situation that might be, or could lead to, a disruption, loss, emergency or crisis.
Interested party - ANSWER-A person or organization that can affect, be affected by, or perceive themselves to be affected by a decision or activity.
Invocation - ANSWER-The act of declaring that an organization's business continuity arrangements need to be put into effect in order to continue delivery of key products or services.
Maximum acceptable outage (MAO) - ANSWER-The time it would take for adverse impacts, which might arise as a result of not providing a product/service or performing an activity, to become unacceptable.
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