Business Continuity (BC)
Key Takeaways
Subdomain 2.2 names Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) under redundancy.
Business continuity keeps the organization operating during a disruption.
Business continuity is broader than restoring systems; disaster recovery is one part of it.
Source: ISC2 CC Exam Outline effective September 1, 2026, subdomain 2.2, checked 2026-10-22.
Purpose
Subdomain 2.2, Understand redundancy, names Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR). Business continuity is the planning that keeps the organization's operations running during a disruption. It is about the business function, not only the technology.
Source: ISC2 CC Exam Outline effective September 1, 2026 (v01/2026), subdomain 2.2, https://www.isc2.org/certifications/cc/cc-certification-exam-outline, checked 2026-10-22.
Continuity and Disaster Recovery
The outline lists BC and DR together. Continuity covers keeping the business operating; disaster recovery covers restoring technology after a disruption. In a scenario, a question about keeping operations going points to BC, and a question about restoring systems points to DR. The outline does not require a specific planning method.
What the Outline Lists for This Section
The outline names these items. Be able to explain each one in plain language and apply it to a short scenario:
- 2.2: Business Continuity (BC)
- 2.2: Disaster Recovery (DR)
Common Traps
A common trap is treating business continuity and disaster recovery as the same plan. Continuity keeps the business running; disaster recovery restores technology. Match the answer to the part the scenario describes.
A scenario asks how the organization keeps its operations running during an outage. Which subtopic of subdomain 2.2 fits best?
Business Continuity (BC)
Disaster Recovery (DR) for restoring the IT systems after the disruption has already ended
Access reviews of user accounts and their privileges on a regular schedule
Vulnerability scanning of the network and applications to find weak configurations
Keep a continuity answer tied to the operations the scenario says must continue. The outline does not name a planning method, so the test is whether the answer keeps the business operating through the disruption.
Sections you finish are checked off in the contents.