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What term refers to the steps necessary for a business to recover from a failure?

contingency planning
disaster recovery
emergency response
risk management

The correct answer is: disaster recovery

The correct choice describes disaster recovery as the comprehensive process and set of procedures that a business puts in place to ensure its ability to return to operations following a significant failure or incident. This includes backing up data, restoring servers, and getting systems back online after events such as natural disasters, cyberattacks, or hardware failures. Disaster recovery plans are crucial because they provide a structured and well-defined approach to mitigate damage and resume business functions as efficiently as possible. Understanding the context of how disaster recovery fits into overall preparedness and resilience strategies is important. Contingency planning relates to preparedness in a broader sense, including planning for various potential scenarios, but it does not focus exclusively on the recovery aspect. Emergency response pertains to immediate actions taken during a crisis to ensure safety and minimize harm, while risk management involves identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks, including planning for recovery but not limited to those actions. Therefore, disaster recovery is specifically about the recovery actions after a failure has occurred, making it the appropriate term in this context.