A continuity plan that has never been rehearsed is a set of hopes. A tabletop exercise tests whether people know who decides, what to restore first and how to reach each other when systems fail. This business continuity plan template runs one scenario in timed injects, so a team works through a disruption in order and leaves with actions. The debrief turns each gap into an owner and a date, which is the part auditors and insurers check first.

The sample is for Candlemas Logistics, a fictional freight firm whose Northgate hub is hit by ransomware. It walks the crisis team through a locked warehouse system, a backup that fails its test and a key supplier that cannot ship, with a four-hour restore target and a one-hour data loss limit for core systems. Replace the scenario, activities, roles and contacts with your own, and print the contact list for off-site storage before the drill.