CISM · Question #250
The PRIMARY purpose of conducting a business impact analysis (BIA) is to determine the:
The correct answer is B. resources needed for business recovery.. The primary purpose of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is to identify critical business processes and determine the minimum resources (people, systems, data, facilities) required to recover and sustain them after a disruption. The BCP scope (A) and RTO (C) are outputs that are d
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The PRIMARY purpose of conducting a business impact analysis (BIA) is to determine the:
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- Ascope of the business continuity program.
- Bresources needed for business recovery.
- Crecovery time objective (RTO).
- Dscope of the incident response plan.
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(28 responses)- B93% (26)
- C4% (1)
- D4% (1)
Explanation
The primary purpose of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is to identify critical business processes and determine the minimum resources (people, systems, data, facilities) required to recover and sustain them after a disruption. The BCP scope (A) and RTO (C) are outputs that are derived from the BIA, not its primary purpose. The incident response plan scope (D) is a separate planning artifact. Understanding recovery resource requirements is what makes the BIA foundational to all continuity planning - everything else flows from that resource-and-impact baseline.
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