BCB-PMD case studies
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The Business Continuity Certified Professional - Master Developer (BCB-PMD) is an advanced, multiple-choice credential aimed at practitioners who design and build business continuity programs rather than simply administer an existing one. It suits experienced continuity managers, resilience and risk leads, plan developers, and consultants who are ready to move from running plans to architecting the whole management system. The BCB-PMD case studies are 5 cases and about 2,666 words.
1The Recovery Target That Outran the Budget
A mid-sized insurance claims processor has an RTO of 4 hours for its claims intake system, set two years ago by the board after a competitor's outage made headlines. The current architecture is a single primary data center with nightly tape backups trucked offsite; the last full restore test took 31 hours and required manual re-keying of 6 hours of transactions.
536 words, about 3 min2The BIA That Everyone Agreed With
A regional hospital network is conducting its first BIA under a new continuity manager. Department heads were sent a spreadsheet asking them to rate the criticality of their own functions on a 1-5 scale and estimate their own RTOs.
517 words, about 3 min3The Exercise That Was Designed to Pass
A payments company runs an annual tabletop exercise. For three consecutive years it has scored 'fully met' on all objectives, and the exercise report goes to the audit committee as evidence of readiness.
565 words, about 3 min4The Supplier Who Was Not in the Plan
A logistics firm has a mature continuity program: BIAs complete, plans documented, annual exercises, and a board-approved policy. Its largest customer, representing 38% of revenue, depends on a single third-party customs-brokerage platform to clear cross-border shipments.
544 words, about 3 min5The Metric That Rewarded the Wrong Behavior
A financial services firm reports continuity program health to its board through a dashboard. The headline metric is 'percentage of business units with an approved continuity plan,' which has risen from 64% to 98% over two years and is presented as proof of program maturity.
504 words, about 3 min