After a disaster occurs, a damage assessment needs to take place. Which of the following steps occurs last in a damage assessment?

A.
Determine the cause of the disaster.

B.
Identify the resources that must be replaced immediately.

C.
Declare a disaster.

D.
Determine how long it will take to bring critical functions back online.

Explanation:
C: The final step in a damage assessment is to declare a disaster. After information from the damage assessment is collected and assessed, it will indicate what teams need to be
called to action and whether the BCP actually needs to be activated. The BCP coordinator and team must develop activation criteria before a disaster takes place. After the damage
assessment, if one or more of the situations outlined in the criteria have taken place, then the team is moved into recovery mode. Different organizations have different criteria,
because the business drivers and critical functions will vary from organization to organization. The criteria may consist of danger to human life, danger to state or national security,
damage to facility, damage to critical systems, and estimated value of downtime that will be experienced.
A is incorrect because determining the cause of the disaster is the first step of the damage assessment. The issue that caused the damage may still be taking place and the team
must figure out how to stop it before a full damage assessment can take place.
B is incorrect because identifying the resources that must be replaced immediately is not the last step of a damage assessment. It does occur near the end of the assessment,
however. Once the resources are identified, the team must estimate how long it will take to bring critical functions back online, and then declare a disaster, if necessary.
D is incorrect because determining how long it will take to bring critical functions back online is the second to last step in a damage assessment. If it will take longer than the
previously determined maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) values to restore operations, then a disaster should be declared and the BCP should be put into action