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Business continuity, part 2

Business continuity, part 2

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Business continuity, part 2

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- [Instructor] All right, so we move on to phase six where we have testing, training, and then conducting exercises. So when we talk about testing, we're verifying the plan for accuracy or completeness, and we're going to test this plan at least once per year to make sure that it's still current and up to date. That really comes with maintenance, but still very important. It is senior management's responsibility to ensure these plans are tested. Now, the various types of tests, we have checklist test, and a checklist test is just what it sounds like. I'm going to pass out a checklist to the managers and say, did I think of everything? Yep, yup. Oops, forgot this. Then we're going to bring those managers in. We're going to sit around a table and we're going to talk about it, and that's called a tabletop test and a structured walkthrough. And that gives us the opportunity to discuss any sort of interdependencies or anything that we may have forgot that's more apparent when we're looking…

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