CBCI (Business Continuity Certifications) study guide
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The CBCI - Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute - is a professional certification offered by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), a global membership association for business continuity and resilience professionals. The BCI describes itself as serving over 10,000 members in more than 120 countries, and it lists the CBCI among its certification and training offerings alongside introductory courses, specialism courses and its Good Practice Guidelines. The CBCI study guide has 6 sections and about 1,622 words.
01Business Continuity Policy and Programme Management
A business continuity policy is a short, senior-level statement of intent. It establishes scope, objectives, authority, accountability and commitment.
306 words, about 2 min02Embedding Business Continuity
Embedding makes continuity part of normal business behaviour. It relies on visible leadership, clear roles, awareness, role-based training, competency assessment, communications, exercises, performance objectives, recognition, supplier engagement and lessons learned.
265 words, about 1 min03Analysis
Analysis combines business impact analysis (BIA) and risk assessment. The BIA identifies critical activities, dependencies, impacts over time, maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPD), recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), minimum business continuity objective (MBCO) and resource requirements.
272 words, about 1 min04Design
Design converts analysis into costed, feasible recovery strategies for each critical activity and dependency. Options include avoiding, reducing, transferring or accepting risk, and recovery approaches such as hot, warm or cold sites, cloud services, reciprocal arrangements, manual workarounds, alternate suppliers, cross-trained staff and duplicate equipment.
287 words, about 1 min05Implementation
Implementation turns strategy into actionable plans. A typical architecture includes emergency response, incident management and coordination, business continuity plans for critical activities, IT disaster recovery, supplier continuity, communications and recovery plans.
242 words, about 1 min06Validation
Validation provides assurance that policy, analysis, design and implementation work in practice. Methods include review, audit, testing and exercising.
250 words, about 1 min