Monday, November 14, 2016

Security+ and Business Continuity Planning

If you're planning to take the Security+ exam, you should have a basic understanding of business continuity planning (BCP) concepts.

A BCP helps an organization predict and plan for potential outages of critical services or functions. The goal is to ensure that critical business operations continue and the organization can survive the outage.

See if you can answer this sample Security+ question.

Q. A BCP includes a chart listing roles within the organization along with their matching responsibilities during a disaster. It also includes a chain of command. What is the purpose of this chart?

A. IT contingency planning

B. Succession planning

C. COOP

D. RTO

See how you did here.