ABC's
What Disaster?
FYI
Roles in BCP
Let's Sing About It
100

This 3 letter acronym is conducted in order to determine the criticality of the business processes and their enablers and set recovery objectives.

What is a BIA?

Business Impact Analysis

100

This upcoming event lasts for 5 days, Sept.23-27.

What is the Disaster Recovery Exercise?

100

Name the three Sr. BC Managers in Operational Resiliency.

Who are Rochelle (Robinson), Dianne (Miller), and Stephanie (Weaver)

100

This role in BCP :

  • Manages the business continuity program

  • Ensures all BC/DR plans are in compliance with Global BC Policy and Standards

  • Coordinates testing of the plans

Who is the BC Manager?

100

What foul weather tool does Rihanna continually ask for in this song?

What is "Umbrella"?

200

3 letter acronym for the documented procedures that guide organizations to respond, recover, resume and restore to a pre-defined level of operation following disruption. 

What is BCP?

Business Continuity Plan

or Business Continuity Planning

200

All testers will do these activities  on the first day of the DR test.

What is connectivity testing?

200

The 4 loss scenarios used in planning are Loss of Location, Loss of Technology, Loss of "    " and Loss of "   ". Name the two missing scenarios in this statement.

What are Loss of Key resources, and Loss of Vendor?

200

Free space

Congrats on the selection! you won your team free points

200

This famous Irish Rock band wrote the lyrics for the song "Volcano" that say , " Volcano, you don't wanna, You don't wanna know".

Who is 'U2' ?

300

This 3 letter acronym is the time it would take for adverse impacts, which might arise as a result of not providing a product/service or performing an activity, to become unacceptable.

"What is MAO?" or "What is  RTO?"

Maximum Allowable Outage or  Recovery Time Objective. Here at TA we use these similarly.

300

 The final step of the Disaster Recovery Exercise after testing has been finished and you have logged out of the DR environment.

what is "Call into the bridge line and report your results"?

300

The name of the tool that the organization uses as its system of record for Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery Planning.

What is BCM, or Business Continuity Manager tool?

300

This Role:

  • Ensures their BC/DR plan within Maestro is kept up to date
  • Collaborates with functional area to build an effective plan

  • Actively participates in BC deliverables

  • Be prepared to lead/coordinate recovery activities during a disruption or exercise  
    Manages communication upward/downward during an event

  • Keep Plan Owner informed of program activities

Who is the Business Continuity Coordinator?

300

REO Speedwagon's 1973 song from an album of the same name was first to feature Mike Murphy on vocals

What is "Ridin' the Storm Out"?

400

This 4 letter acronym stands for the unique (single) source or pathway of a service, activity and/or process; typically, there is no alternative, and loss of that element could lead to total failure of a mission critical activity and/or dependency.

What is SPOF?

Single Point of Failure

400

This tool is used to record the process, the application, the test day by MAO, testers, and technical resources for the DR Exercise.

What is the DR Scope document?

400

BIAs ( Business Impact Analysis)  must be performed for each process at this frequency based on our Global Policy and Standards.

What is "every 2 years or with material change to the process"?


 

400

What role:

  • Approves the BC/DR plan annually

  • Assigns the BC Coordinator/Plan Builder

  • Responsible for ensuring their team is prepared for any disruption

  • Does NOT have access to Maestro

Who is the Plan owner?

400

What song did Nick Jonas and Demi Lavato release in 2014 about  emotions that were like this cold weather disaster?

What is "Avalanche"?

500

3 letter acronym for a role within the BCM program that coordinates planning and implementation for overall recovery of an organization or business units. Designated individuals responsible for developing, execution, rehearsals, and maintenance of the business continuity pIan

What is BCC?

Business Continuity Coordinator

500

A disaster recovery (DR) exercise is a test of the recovery of infrastructure, business-critical applications and data to ensure an organization can really continue its operations after a disruptive event or disaster. The Exercise scope of 'business critical' applications include MAOs of __days or less.

What is 3 days?

500

This tool is used to deliver mass emergency notifications to our workforce and acknowledge receipt. Our program will communicate to the BCCs with a message to kickoff our DR exercise.

What is Everbridge? or "What is the Everbridge  Emergency Notification tool?"

500

This Role is responsible and accountable for building and maturing the holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations and which provides a framework for building organizational resilience with the capability of an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and customers

Who is the Director of Operational Resilience?

500

This 1971 release title by American singer-song writer James Taylor, contains the name of a flow of earthy material, was also his 3rd album name.  

What is " Mud Slide Slim, or Mud Slide ( and the Blue Horizon)?

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