This CC practice question tests your understanding of business continuity, dr & incident response. Read the scenario carefully and evaluate each option against the stated constraints before committing to an answer. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
Which document outlines the procedures for maintaining critical business functions during a disruption?
Business Continuity Plan
BCP outlines procedures to sustain essential business operations.
Continuity of Operations Plan
Why wrong: COOP is typically used for government agencies and is similar but not the standard term for businesses.
Incident Response Plan
Why wrong: IRP addresses response to security incidents.
Disaster Recovery Plan
Why wrong: Disaster Recovery Plan focuses on IT and technology recovery.
Answer choices
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
Business Continuity Plan
The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is the correct answer because it specifically outlines the procedures and strategies to maintain critical business functions during a disruption. Unlike other plans that focus on IT recovery or incident response, the BCP ensures that essential business operations continue, often by leveraging alternate work sites, manual workarounds, or scaled-down processes, until normal operations can be restored.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
Business Continuity Plan
Why this is correct
BCP outlines procedures to sustain essential business operations.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Continuity of Operations Plan
Why it's wrong here
COOP is typically used for government agencies and is similar but not the standard term for businesses.
Incident Response Plan
Why it's wrong here
IRP addresses response to security incidents.
Disaster Recovery Plan
Why it's wrong here
Disaster Recovery Plan focuses on IT and technology recovery.
Common exam traps
ISC2 often tests the distinction between BCP and DRP, where candidates mistakenly choose Disaster Recovery Plan because they focus only on IT recovery, forgetting that BCP covers the broader business continuity including non-IT functions like manual order processing or alternate facilities.
Trap categories for this question
Similar concept trap
COOP is typically used for government agencies and is similar but not the standard term for businesses.
Detailed technical explanation
A BCP typically includes a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to identify critical functions and their Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). It also defines alternate processing strategies, such as using cold, warm, or hot sites, and includes communication plans, succession of management, and resource requirements. In a real-world scenario, a BCP might specify that customer service calls be rerouted to a remote call center while IT works on restoring the primary data center, ensuring revenue-generating activities continue.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
A SOC analyst notices unusual lateral movement in the network at 2 AM. The IR playbook dictates: identify and contain (isolate the affected machine), then eradicate (remove the malware), then recover (restore from backup), then document. Skipping containment before eradication risks the attacker regaining access. Questions like this test the sequence and rationale of incident response phases.
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Business Continuity, DR & Incident Response — This question tests Business Continuity, DR & Incident Response — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
The correct answer is: Business Continuity Plan — The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is the correct answer because it specifically outlines the procedures and strategies to maintain critical business functions during a disruption. Unlike other plans that focus on IT recovery or incident response, the BCP ensures that essential business operations continue, often by leveraging alternate work sites, manual workarounds, or scaled-down processes, until normal operations can be restored.
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