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Post 1Introduction A business contingency plan is an action taken in response to unexpected events in an organization that disrupts a company’s production and puts employees in danger and often used for risk management. On the other hand, disaster recovery is a security planning factor whose main purpose is to protect an organization from negative events. Contingency planning reduces the loss of production, such as having emergency generators for power when there is a power outage. It allows workers to move on speedily into a recovery mode relatively than panic when a disaster occurs. To managers, its comprehensive in scope since it allows them to look at the bigger picture somewhat than a series of the disconnected steps. It also allows the company to keep the team refreshed, which is a tip for success (Philpott, 2019). The plan's shortcomings are complex in applying it because its suggestion is very simple but difficult. It is reactive. At times, it becomes hard for the manager to handle it and also suffers from the inadequacy of literature as it’s not diplomatic to say a managerial action depends on the situation. Disaster recovery benefits a company by being cost-effective due to its preventive, detective, and corrective measures in the event of a disaster. This will ensure employee productivity since the plan is executed to the right people in advance. This perfection and reliability will lead to greater customer retention and a better understanding of scalability to the company (Tweneboah-Koduah, & Prasad, 2020). The key weaknesses of the recovery plan are; it is always wrong or inadequate due to lack of proper testing and majorly relies on the wrong technology. The plan has insufficient information over management hence hard for implementation. ReferencesPhilpott, D. (2019). Public School Emergency Preparedness. Bernan Press.Tweneboah-Koduah, S., & Prasad, R. (2020). The Threats of Infrastructure Obsolescence to Smart Grid: A Case Study. Wireless Personal Communications, 1-19.Post 2Disaster recovery testing is a multi-step drill of an organization's disaster recovery plan (DRP) designed to assure that information technology (IT) systems will be restored if an actual disaster occurs. The main objective of DRT is to make sure that, in case a disaster does happen, the DR plan will actually work. In disaster recovery testing, there are different types of tests that can be applied (Emigh, 2019). These are Paper test, simulation, and the walk-through test.In a paper test, members of the DR team read and annotate recovery plan documents such as DR policies, procedures, timelines, benchmarks, and checklists. A hard copy of documents should be stored in a secure offline environment, and a digital copy in the cloud (Emigh, 2019).A walk through test is a group walk through of the DRP to pinpoint any issues that need to be addressed and any modifications that should be made to the disaster recovery environment (Emigh, 2019).In a procedure somewhat along the lines of a fire drill, teams practice the DRP in real life to make sure that it's sufficient for IT disaster recovery (Emigh, 2019).With the paper test, the whole disaster recovery is dissected in which all the members share the same table in assessing the DR. More importantly, there is a hard copy and soft copy that gets to be created. However, those who might not access the hard copy and out of cloud services, they might not access the one stored in the cloud. With the walkthrough test, all members get time to go through plan and assess any problem. This process is important as it pinpoints out any weaknesses that can be within the DR.ReferenceEmigh, J. (2019). Disaster Recovery Testing: Ensuring Your DR Plan Works. Retrieved from https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/backup-recovery/disaster-recovery-testing.html