A tabletop exercise involves the executive team or key stakeholders discussing and testing the company's incident response plan in a simulated environment. These exercises are low-stress, discussion-based, and help to validate the plan's effectiveness by walking through different scenarios without disrupting actual operations. It is an essential part of testing business continuity and incident response strategies.
* Continuity of operations refers to the ability of an organization to continue functioning during and after a disaster but doesn't specifically involve simulations like tabletop exercises.
* Capacity planning is related to ensuring the infrastructure can handle growth, not incident response testing.
* Parallel processing refers to running multiple processes simultaneously, which is unrelated to testing an incident response plan.