Which term describes the organizational capability to maintain essential functions during a disruption and resume normal operations?

• A. Disaster recovery
• B. IT-related incident
• C. ROI
• D. Business continuity

Answer: (D)

Maintaining essential functions during a disruption and then resuming normal operations is business continuity. This concept covers the organization’s ability to keep critical activities running when something goes wrong and to recover fully afterward, through planning, resources, and procedures that address people, processes, and facilities. It often involves identifying which functions are critical (via a business impact analysis) and setting recovery targets like how quickly those functions must be restored (RTO) and how much data can be lost (RPO). Disaster recovery is related but narrower, focusing mainly on restoring IT systems after an incident, whereas business continuity encompasses the broader organizational capability. An IT-related incident is an event that disrupts operations, and ROI is simply a financial metric, not a measure of operational resilience.