Ensure Disaster Recovery Objectives Scenario

This scenario is about ensuring that any capabilities listed in the business continuity/disaster recovery plan can work within the boundaries of the Service Contract. The activities in this scenario, which are planned and triggered by the business continuity and/or disaster recovery plan activities calendar, include: detection, diagnosis, and remediation tasks related to the plan. The purpose of the activities is to ensure that recovery objectives (e.g., Maximum Acceptable Outage (MAO), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)) remain within the boundaries of the agreed Service Contract and BIA. Real-world examples of these activities include performing backups, ensuring plans and mechanisms for graceful degradation, removing Single Points Of Failure (SPOFs), validating recovery libraries, performing redundancy validations, testing backup sites, and performing running (scheduled or random) disaster recovery simulations.