Which condition is most commonly used as a formal criterion for declaring a disaster under an organization's contingency plan?

A security breach that is contained within the same business day

A loss of power that lasts longer than 30 minutes

The expected downtime exceeds the organization's recovery time objective (RTO) for critical systems

Any single server failure that causes a brief service interruption

A regional bank's primary data center experiences a fire that destroys the server room. The bank's disaster recovery plan defines a disaster as 'any event that prevents processing of customer transactions for more than four hours.' The fire occurred at 2:00 AM; by 6:30 AM, the bank's IT team has not been able to restore any systems, and the alternate site is not yet operational. The incident commander has been notified. According to the plan's declaration criteria, what should the incident commander do next?

Declare a disaster immediately because the outage has already exceeded the four-hour threshold defined in the plan.

Declare a disaster only after the alternate site is fully operational and ready to accept transactions.

Wait until the four-hour threshold is definitively exceeded before initiating any formal declaration.

Declare a disaster only if the fire is determined to be arson or an act of nature.

Which document provides the specific procedures to follow when activating the disaster recovery plan?

The business impact analysis (BIA)

The incident response plan (IRP)

The disaster recovery plan (DRP)

Information Systems Security Management Professional

Domain 5Objective 4

5.4 Manage Disaster Response and Recovery Process ISSMP Practice Questions (Page 8)

Part of the Contingency Management domain, which accounts for 12% of the ISSMP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~8–14 in this domain), expect 2–4 from this objective — we provide 38 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

38questions here

8free pages

11concepts

12%of the exam

11 Concepts in This Objective

Disaster declaration criteria
Disaster declaration process
Disaster communication plan
Activation of the business continuity plan
Incident command and coordination
Resource management during response
Restoration of critical functions
Transition to normal operations
Lessons learned collection
After-action review
Plan update and improvement

Questions 36–38

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Which condition is most commonly used as a formal criterion for declaring a disaster under an organization's contingency plan?
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A regional bank's primary data center experiences a fire that destroys the server room. The bank's disaster recovery plan defines a disaster as 'any event that prevents processing of customer transactions for more than four hours.' The fire occurred at 2:00 AM; by 6:30 AM, the bank's IT team has not been able to restore any systems, and the alternate site is not yet operational. The incident commander has been notified. According to the plan's declaration criteria, what should the incident commander do next?
Select an answer first
38foundation · easy
Which document provides the specific procedures to follow when activating the disaster recovery plan?
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5.4 Manage Disaster Response and Recovery Process ISSMP Practice Questions (Page 8)

Questions 36–38

Which condition is most commonly used as a formal criterion for declaring a disaster under an organization's contingency plan?

Which document provides the specific procedures to follow when activating the disaster recovery plan?

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