One of the MAIN goals of a Business Continuity Plan is to

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Options

• AEnsure all infrastructure and applications are available in the event of a disaster
• BAllow all technical first-responders to understand their roles in the event of a disaster
• CProvide step by step plans to recover business processes in the event of a disaster
• DAssign responsibilities to the technical teams responsible for the recovery of all data.

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  9% (4)
• C
  82% (36)
• D
  7% (3)

Explanation

A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is fundamentally about keeping the business running - its processes, operations, and functions - not just the technology underneath it. Option C is correct because a BCP provides actionable, step-by-step procedures to recover the business processes themselves (e.g., payroll, order fulfillment, customer service) after a disruption, regardless of the technical means used.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A describes an IT Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), which focuses on infrastructure and application availability - a subset of BCP, not its main goal.
• B describes an Incident Response Plan or communication/role matrix - important, but it's about people knowing their roles, not about recovering business processes.
• D describes a narrow technical function (data recovery responsibilities) that falls under a DRP, not the broader BCP scope.

Memory tip: Think of BCP as the business manager's plan and DRP as the IT team's plan. If the answer focuses on keeping the business alive (processes, operations), it's BCP. If it focuses on keeping the servers alive (data, infrastructure, applications), it's DRP.

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