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SSCP · Question #493

Which of the following item would best help an organization to gain a common understanding of functions that are critical to its survival?

The correct answer is D. A business impact analysis. A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is an assessment of an organization's business functions to develop an understanding of their criticality, recovery time objectives, and resources needed. By going through a Business Impact Analysis, the organization will gain a common understandi

Submitted by klara.se· Apr 18, 2026Risk Identification, Monitoring and Analysis

Question

Which of the following item would best help an organization to gain a common understanding of functions that are critical to its survival?

Options

  • AA risk assessment
  • BA business assessment
  • CA disaster recovery plan
  • DA business impact analysis

How the community answered

(48 responses)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    94% (45)

Explanation

A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is an assessment of an organization's business functions to develop an understanding of their criticality, recovery time objectives, and resources needed. By going through a Business Impact Analysis, the organization will gain a common understanding of functions that are critical to its survival. A risk assessment is an evaluation of the exposures present in an organization's external and internal environments. A Business Assessment generally include Business Analysis as a discipline and it has heavy overlap with requirements analysis sometimes also called requirements engineering, but focuses on identifying the changes to an organization that are required for it to achieve strategic goals. These changes include changes to strategies, structures, policies, processes, and information A disaster recovery plan is the comprehensive statement of consistent actions to be taken before, during and after a disruptive event that causes a significant loss of information systems

Topics

#Business Impact Analysis (BIA)#Critical Business Functions#Business Continuity#Risk Analysis

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