When planning for disaster recovery it is important to know a chain of command should one or more people
become missing, incapacitated or otherwise available to lead the organization.
Which of the following terms BEST describes this process?

A.
Succession Planning

B.
Continuity of Operations

C.
Business Impact Analysis

D.
Business Continuity Planning

Explanation:
Organizations must ensure that there is always an executive available to make decisions during a disaster.
Executive succession planning determines an organization’s line of succession. Executives may become
unavailable due to a variety of disasters, ranging from injury and loss of life to strikes, travel restrictions, and
medical quarantines.
Incorrect Answers:
B: The purpose of a Continuity of Operations plan is to maintain operations during a disaster. Continuity of
Operations does address chain of command recovery.
C: A Business Impact Assessment (BIA) is an analysis that identifies the resources that are critical to an
organization’s ongoing viability and the threats posed to those resources. A BIA does address chain of
command recovery.
D: Business continuity planning is focused on keeping business functions uninterrupted when a disaster strikes.
Business continuity planning does address chain of command recovery.

Conrad, Eric, Seth Misenar and Joshua Feldman, CISSP Study Guide, 2nd Edition, Syngress, Waltham, 2012,
p. 372