What is the purpose of business continuity planning for ICT systems?

• A. Ensures essential functions continue during disruptions; includes plans to recover IT systems.
• B. Focuses only on preventing any disruption.
• C. Aims to minimize costs by reducing system functionality.
• D. Seeks to eliminate all risk to ICT.

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is resilience: keeping the essential business functions running even when ICT systems are disrupted and having a clear plan to restore IT services quickly. Business continuity planning for ICT looks at what must stay available, what resources are needed, and how to recover within acceptable timeframes and data-loss limits. It includes practical steps, roles, communication, backups, and often alternate sites or methods to keep critical operations going, plus exercises to ensure the plan works.

That makes sense why this option is best: it explicitly says essential functions continue during disruptions and includes plans to recover IT systems. The other ideas miss the core purpose—trying to prevent every disruption is not feasible, reducing functionality to save costs defeats continuity, and eliminating all risk isn’t possible.