BCDR stands for which phrase?

• A. Disaster Recovery
• B. BC
• C. Business Continuity
• D. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Answer: (D)

The concept here is an integrated approach to resilience that covers both keeping essential operations running and restoring IT capabilities after a disruption. The best phrase is the one that explicitly names both components: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

Focusing only on Disaster Recovery describes restoring IT systems after an incident, but it doesn’t address maintaining or continuing critical business processes during the disruption. Focusing only on Business Continuity covers maintaining operations, people, facilities, and processes, but not the specifics of recovering IT infrastructure and data. When you combine them, you get the full program that ensures ongoing operations while also having a plan to restore IT and data after a disruption. In practice, this means a coordinated set of plans and activities that include both a business continuity plan and a disaster recovery plan under an integrated governance framework.