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Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is the process of implementing policies, controls, and procedures to counteract the effects of losses, outages, or failures of critical business processes. BCP is primarily a management tool that ensures critical business functions (CBF) can be performed when normal business operations are disrupted.
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This material is intended to provide you with an overview of the Business Continuity Planning process, and it isn't covered in much detail in the exam. The objectives to study for the exam are covered in Chapter 8, "Security Policies and Procedures," and Chapter 9, "Security Management." In other words, if you're only reading the material for the exam and not for real-world implementation, you can stop reading this chapter at this point.