BCI Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI) CBCI Question # 14 Topic 2 Discussion
CBCI Exam Topic 2 Question 14 Discussion:
Question #: 14
Topic #: 2
When conducting a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), an understanding of the requirements for people, information and data, finance and suppliers is required to identify resources and dependencies for:
A.
Prioritised activities
B.
Developing a general business plan
C.
Developing a plan to improve the organization's BC culture
In GPG-aligned CBCI 7.0 practice, the BIA estimates impacts over time and identifies what must be recovered, in what order, and with what minimum capability. A key BIA output is a clear view of the resources and dependencies needed to deliver the organization’s prioritised activities—including people/skills, information and data, technology, premises, finance, suppliers, and key internal/external interdependencies. This is foundational because strategies and solutions (PP4) and the enabling plans (PP5) must be based on what the BIA proves is required to restore delivery.
Therefore, option A is correct: those requirement categories are analysed specifically to identify the dependencies that enable prioritised activities to continue or resume.
Option B (general business plan) is broader strategic planning, not the specific continuity dependency mapping output from a BIA. Option C relates to culture development (PP2), not BIA dependency capture. Option D (response structure) uses BIA outputs, but the direct purpose of gathering people/data/finance/supplier requirements during BIA is to map the resources and dependencies for prioritised activities.
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