Which statement best describes Continuity of Operations (COOP) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP)?

• A. COOP focuses on maintaining essential functions during disruption; BCP is broader, covering all critical processes and recovery.
• B. COOP covers all IT systems; BCP covers only essential functions.
• C. COOP is primarily a financial planning framework; BCP is only a disaster response plan.
• D. COOP and BCP are interchangeable terms with no distinction.

Answer: (A)

COOP centers on keeping essential functions up and running when normal operations are disrupted, with plans for who leads, where work happens, and how critical tasks continue despite outages. A Business Continuity Plan takes a broader view, identifying all critical processes and dependencies and detailing the strategies, resources, and steps needed to prevent, respond to, and recover from disruptions across the entire organization. So the description that COOP focuses on maintaining essential functions during disruption while BCP covers all critical processes and recovery best captures their relationship. The other options misstate COOP’s scope or how BCP is used, or treat the terms as interchangeable.