As part of the process of conducting a business impact analysis (BIA), you document the device name, operating system or platform version, hardware requirements, and device interrelationships of all devices. Which step of the BIA are you performing?
A. Identify critical processes and resources.
B. Identify resource requirements.
C. Identify outage impacts, and estimate downtime.
D. Identify recovery priorities.
B
Explanation: During the identify resource requirements step, you would document the device name, operating system or platform version, hardware requirements, and device interrelationships of all devices.
During the identify critical processes and resources step, you create a list of all the business assets. During the identify outage impacts and estimate downtime step, you would perform the MTD, MTTR, and MTBF calculations. During the identify recovery priorities step, you would take into account all the recovery calculations to produce a recovery hierarchy.
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A) data dictionary B) structured analysis C) data flow diagrams D) automated data dictionaries E) design
A fundamental difference between a BIA and risk management is that risk management focuses on identifying threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks to determine which controls can protect information, while the BIA assumes __________.
A. controls have been bypassed B. controls have proven ineffective C. controls have failed D. All of the above