Which document outlines how a company will continue to operate during a disaster?

• A. Business Continuity Plan
• B. Disaster Recovery Plan
• C. Incident Response Plan
• D. Service Continuity Plan

Answer: (A)

Planning for how a company keeps running during a disaster. A Business Continuity Plan outlines the steps, roles, and resources needed to continue critical operations even when parts of the business are affected. It identifies essential functions, sets recovery time objectives (how quickly operations must resume) and recovery point objectives (how current data must be), and describes how to communicate with staff, customers, and suppliers. It also covers contingency arrangements like alternate sites, manual processes, and resource needs to sustain operations during disruption and during the transition back to normal. While other plans focus on specific areas—disaster recovery centers on restoring IT systems after an incident, incident response targets immediate actions for security events, and the term service continuity plan isn’t the standard umbrella document—you want a plan that encompasses the whole organization’s ability to operate through and recover from a disaster.