What is the primary purpose of a post-exercise review?

To celebrate the success of the exercise

To document the exercise for regulatory compliance

To assign blame for any failures during the exercise

To identify gaps and areas for improvement in the BC plan

After a simulation exercise, the BC team identifies that the incident command structure was not clearly understood by participants, leading to confusion about who was in charge. The BC manager must decide how to address this gap. Which action is MOST effective?

Conduct another exercise immediately to see if the confusion recurs.

Remove the incident command structure from the BC plan to simplify it.

Revise the BC plan to clarify the incident command structure and provide additional training to key personnel.

Assign a single person to make all decisions during an incident.

A retail chain is developing its first business continuity plan. The CEO asks the BC manager to ensure that the plan focuses on the most critical business functions. What is the FIRST step the BC manager should take?

Conduct a business impact analysis (BIA) to identify critical functions and their recovery requirements.

Train all employees on the BC plan.

Write the recovery procedures for all business functions.

Purchase an alternate site for recovery.

Which of the following is a key component of a business continuity plan?

A marketing strategy for communicating with customers

A detailed inventory of all company assets

A list of all employees' personal contact information

Defined roles and responsibilities for the BC team

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Domain 7Objective 13

7.13 - Participate in Business Continuity (BC) Planning and Exercises CISSP Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the Security Operations domain, which accounts for 13% of the CISSP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~9–16 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 34 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Questions 16–20

16foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of a post-exercise review?
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17expert · hard
After a simulation exercise, the BC team identifies that the incident command structure was not clearly understood by participants, leading to confusion about who was in charge. The BC manager must decide how to address this gap. Which action is MOST effective?
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18foundation · easy
Which data recovery strategy involves regularly copying data to an offsite location, but the copies may be several hours or days old?
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19application · medium
A retail chain is developing its first business continuity plan. The CEO asks the BC manager to ensure that the plan focuses on the most critical business functions. What is the FIRST step the BC manager should take?
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20foundation · easy
Which of the following is a key component of a business continuity plan?
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