An organization is considering its options for mitigating service continuity risks in an effort to...

The organization has already identified alternate sites, backup capabilities, and manual workarounds. The major remaining gap is proving that these arrangements will actually work when needed. The best next step is to test the continuity plan.

A plan can look good on paper and still fail under real conditions. Testing validates roles, dependencies, timing, recovery assumptions, communication paths, and the practical usability of backup and recovery methods. In HVIT, resilient operations depend on evidence-based confidence, not just documented intentions.

A is useful but insufficient. B appears partly addressed already through backup capabilities. D may matter, but it does not complete the continuity capability in the way testing does. So C is the strongest answer.

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