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03/10/2010

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Term
Business Impact Assessment
Definition
  • identify the impact of a disruptive event on business.
  • Identifies the exposures to loss to the organization
Term
Business Impact Assessment
Definition
  • gather needed assessment materials
  • perform vulnerability assessment
  • analyze information
  • document present recommendations
  • utilizes quantative and qualitative criterias
  • helps a company decide what needs to be recovered and how quickly it needs to be recovered.
Term
Business Continuity Plan Development
Definition
define and document continuity strategy
Term
Plan Approval and Implementation
Definition
receive approval by senior management and create an awareness o the plan
Term
Plan Approval and Implementation
Definition
Receive approval by senior management
develop enterprise awareness of the plan
maintain and update plan
Term
Scope plan and initiation
Definition
marks the start of the business continuity planning and defines the scope for the plan
Term
Scope plan and initiation
Definition
identify the work required
identify resources to be used
define management practices to be used
Term
The four elements of BCP
Definition
(Ordered)
Scope plan and initiation
Business Impact Assessment
Business Continuity Plan Development
Plan Approval and Implementation
Term
Cold Site
Definition
The facility has necessary space and infrastructure support (electric power,
telecommunications support, environmental controls), but does not contain IT equipment.
Term
Warm Site
Definition
The facility is partially equipped with some of the necessary IT equipment. It is maintained in
an operational status ready to receive the relocated system.
Term
Hot Site
Definition
The facility is equipped with all necessary infrastructure and IT equipment to be immediately
and fully functional. A hot site is typically staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Term
Mobile Site
Definition
A self-contained transportable unit that is custom-fitted with specific telecommunications and
IT equipment necessary to meet defined requirements
Term
Mirrored Site
Definition
A fully redundant facility that has real-time information mirroring and is identical in all technical aspects to the primary site.
Term
Electronic Vaulting
Definition
Allows backups to be created offsite automatically by the use of an electronic vaulting provider. This is primarily done through a batch process of transferring bulk data to a remote
server. Media that may be used includes optical disks, magnetic disks, mass storage devices, or
automated tape libraries.
Term
Remote Journaling
Definition
Transmits transaction logs or journals to a remote location. Remote journaling allows
parallel processing of transactions at a remote site, and enables transactions, applications, or database
changes since the last backup to be recovered quickly.
Term
Database shadowing
Definition
a combination of server mirroring and remote journaling where multiple local and multiple offsite backups are created.
Term
Server Mirroring
Definition
real-time backup system that creates an exact duplicate copy of your data onto
duplicate hardware. This can be accomplished with a RAID 1 system or with complete mirrored server
hardware boxes. The backup is usually local, but the backup is in real-time.
Term
salvage team
Definition
Who is responsible for restoring the operations of the primary site, after the immediate disaster has ended?
Term
The recovery team
Definition
is responsible for getting ensuring that the critical business functions are operating at the alternate
backup process site, after a disaster has occurred
Term
The BCP committee
Definition
is responsible to create,
implement, and test the BCP plan Senior Management has the ultimate responsibility for all phases of the plan, from
initiating, monitoring and testing of the plan, and execution of the plan during a disaster.
Term
Annually
Definition
How often should a DRP plan be tested?
Term
procedures to prevent interruptions to normal business plan
Definition
The purpose of BCP planning?
Term
Full Backup
Definition
  • Captures all files selected for backup.
  • Depending on the volume of data and frequency, full backups can require a large storage capacity and a significant amount of time to record the information.
  • Because of the overhead, a full backup is NOT ideal for cases where the data changes infrequently from backup to backup.
  • In cases where much of the data does not change from backup to backup, incremental / differential backups can be considered.
Term
Incremental Backup
Definition

What type of backup,

  • Captures only files created or modified since the last backup.
  • Is the fastest backup method
  • This method is more efficient from a storage media perspective, but may require more time for restoration, depending on when the last full backup was taken prior to initiating a recovery operation.
  • It stores all files that have changed since the last full backup, incremental or differential backup.
Term
Differential Backup
Definition
  • Stores files that were created or modified since the last full backup.
  • This method takes less time to complete than a full backup and may require fewer storage units than an incremental approach because only the full backup tape and the last incremental tape would be needed for restoration.
  • Disadvantages:  is that the backups take longer because the amount of data since the last full backup increases daily until the next full backup is run.  Restore is slower than restoring from a full backup and the storage space requirement is higher than incremental.
Term
Friday's full backup + incremental backups from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
Definition

let's assume a full backup was performed on a Friday and incrementals were performed on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. If the server crashed on Thursday, one would need to restore

Term
differential backup
Definition
what type of restoration if Friday's full backup + Wednesday's differential backup is restored?
Term
Reciprocal Agreement
Definition
  • What is an agreement in which two parties agree to support each other in case of a disruptive event referred as a mutual aid agreement.
  • major disadvantge is resource contention with partner company in case of disaster strikes both companies.
  • is low cost, in comparison to hot site and warm site
Term
Recovery team
Definition
  • is responsible for getting ensuring that the critical business functions are operating at the alternate backup process site, after a disaster has occurred.
  • is responsible for ensuring the critical systems and applications are back online
Term
incremental backup
Definition
Which backup type only captures files created or modified since the last backup?
Term
BIA goals
Definition
resource requirements
criticality priorization
downtime estimation
Term
Checklist test
Definition
Copies of plans are distributed to each business unit's management team, where the plans are reviewed to verify whether all procedures and critical areas of the organization are addressed. It also determines if sufficient supplies are stored at the backup site, telephone number listings are current, quantities of forms are adequate, and a copy of the recovery plan and necessary operational
manuals are available.
Term
Structured walk-through test
Definition
Team members meet to verbally walk through the specific steps of
each component of the disaster recovery process as documented in the disaster recovery plan. The purpose of the test is to confirm the effectiveness of the plan and to identify
gaps, bottlenecks or other weaknesses in the plan.
Term
Simulation test
Definition
Organization emulates a disaster so normal operations will not be interrupted. A disaster scenario should take into consideration the purpose of the test, objectives, type of test, timing, scheduling, duration, test participants, assignments, constraints, assumptions, and test steps. Testing can
include the notification procedures, temporary operating procedures, and backup and recovery operations.
Term
Parallel test
Definition
Involves bringing the recovery site to a state of operational readiness, but maintaining operations at the primary site. Thus staff are relocated, backup tapes transferred, and
operational readiness established in accordance with the disaster recovery plan while operations at the
primary site continue normally. For instance, under this scenario, historical transactions, are processed
against the preceding day s backup files at the contingency processing site or hot-site. All reports
produced at the alternate site for the current business date should agree with those reports produced at the existing processing site.
Term
Full-interruption test -
Definition
Organization simulates a disaster, even to the point of ceasing normal production operations and involving emergency services.
Term
Financial management activities during business continuity and disaster recovery process
Definition
notify insurance companies
track recovery costs
assess cash flow projections
establish financial reimbursement procedures
Term
vulnerability assessment
Definition
purpose to identify the impact of a loss of critical business functions?
Term
GFS rotation
Definition
What backup strategy involves three media pools for backups (Daily, weekly, and monthly) where each pool has a default retention period and number of storage media to save?
Term
Business Continuity Management Life Cycle
Definition
Anaylze your business
Assess the risks
Develop your strategy
Develop your plan
Rehearse the plan
Term
BCP
Definition
A holistic management process that identies potential impacts that threaten an organization and provides a framework for building resilience and effective response tat will safeguard the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value-creating activities.
Term
Non-Essential
Definition
Required recovery time following a disaster 30 days?
Term
Normal
Definition
Required recovery time following a disaster 7 days?
Term
Important
Definition
Required recovery time following a disaster 72 hours?
Term
Urgent
Definition
Required recovery time following a disaster 24 hours
Term
Critical/Essential
Definition
Required recovery time following a disaster Minutes to Hours
Term
Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) or (MTD)
Definition
  • The period of time after which an organization's viability will be irrevocably threatened if delivery of a particular product or service cannont be resumed. 
  • Or, a critical business system to be disabled for over long period.
Term
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Definition
Allows time for unforeseen difficulty with recover or in other words is lower than critically necessary.
Term

immediately following an exercise

following a major change in personnel

after installing software

Definition
A BCP should be updated and maintained
Term
Prudent Man Rule
Definition
Regardless of industry, which element of legal and regulatory requirements are all industries subject to?
Term
Meeting pre-determined time frame.
Definition
After the completion of BIA, recovery strategies must be developed.  The primary concern of these recovery strategies is?
Term
BIA
Definition
What establishes the effect of disruptions on the organization?
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