By the way, exercises like this are never like the real thing. They are models, and they can help identify some short-comings, but will always lack detail because the only way to get detail is from the real thing. Think chaos theory.
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As someone who has participated in a number of similar exercises (Continuity of Operations) they frequently are little more than filling in forms with standard boilerplate.
Exactly. I've been through some corporate exercises and government as a consultant. Desks are setup, phone lines and computers setup, which leads to a realization there needs to be funding for a command center if there wasn't one, then scenarios are played from scripts (generally unknown to people in the exercise). Paper is pushes, data is entered and some problems are uncovered. But in general people are not fully engaged because they have normal jobs to do.