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Which activity is performed first when developing a business continuity plan, because its output drives the selection of recovery strategies and the RTO and RPO values?
Conducting a Business Impact Analysis comes first. It identifies critical functions and quantifies the effect of their disruption, which in turn fixes recovery time and recovery point objectives. Alternate site contracts, tests and training follow once the recovery strategy has been determined.
- AConducting a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)Correct
- BConducting a full-scale failover test
- CSigning contracts with an alternate site vendor
- DTraining staff on evacuation drills
Explanation
The BIA identifies critical processes, their dependencies and the impact of their disruption over time. These findings set recovery priorities and objectives. Vendor contracts, testing and training come after strategies are chosen, so they cannot be the starting point.
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