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IT Disaster Recovery Implementer

Course outline

DRP3002 days
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Duration

2 days

Overview

The DRP-300: IT Disaster Recovery Implementer is an intermediate level course that is primarily designed and developed for IT Disaster Recovery (DR) Managers and Planners, IT Professionals dealing with specific area within the DR planning process, and any IT professional embarking on their IT Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) career.

Candidates will be introduced to the key concepts of developing business continuity and disaster recovery strategies, design and implementation of DR plans, and preparing and conducting awareness and training programmes. This course is a pre-requisite course for the DRP-400 course.

Audience

The course curriculum and contents are designed for :

  • Middle Management
  • Department Representatives
  • Business Unit BCM Coordinators
  • BC/DR Managers

Course Objective

Participants will be imparted with crucial DR skills and knowledge; empowering them to support the organization and DRP team to:

  • Assess risk to IT and technology related components within the IT environment.
  • Understand the conduct of the application impact analysis used to identify critical IT and technology resources to support key users.
  • Be able to relate to Recovery Objectives and identify the recovery solutions.
  • Develop and evaluate effectiveness of related recovery procedures.
  • Walkthrough the test and exercises for IT disaster recovery.

Pre-requisites

At least 1-year of IT DRP experience to achieve the DRCS certification or

Newly appointed IT professional to be appointed as Organization IT DR Coordinator.

Course Duration

This is a 2 day intermediate course with a DRCS examination on the following day, upon successful completion of the course. The DRCS examination consists of 100 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) electronic based examinations. The examination which lasts for 2.5 hours would need candidates to achieve a 75% passing grade.

Day 1

Understand IT DR and BCM Fundamentals

  • Understand DR and BCM fundamentals and concepts
  • Be aware of your role in your organisation’s DR efforts
  • Recognise the implication of international standards to

DR planning within your organisation

  • Appreciate the benefits and success factor when implementing the DR program

Establish the Need for DR

  • Understand the need and justification for DR implementation
  • Appreciate what constitutes a disaster in IT DR planning
  • Differentiate operational disruption issues from IT disaster
  • Factor the considerations for IT DR implementation

Walkthrough the DR Planning Methodology

  • Walkthrough each component of the DR planning methodology
  • Understand the relationship and inter-dependencies between IT DRP and BCM
  • Able to elaborate the objective key activities and deliverables for each component

Prepare the Organization for a DR Project

  • Understand what resources are involved in an IT DR project
  • Identify the key stakeholders or interested parties
  • Identify and evaluate the resources and requirement needed for the project
  • Examine and prioritize the IT systems

Identify and Evaluate IT and Infrastructure Risks

  • Understand the risk assessment process and its key concepts
  • Identify natural and man-made threats to IT and infrastructure
  • Estimate risk likelihood and risk impact
  • Identify and evaluate risk rating and levels
  • Determine and select the risk reduction measures and control options
  • Justify and recommend control measures and safeguards

Day 2

Identify the Impacts to Business Due to a Disaster

  • Understand BIA, RPO and RTO concepts
  • Differentiate between technology and business recovery
  • Outline BIA process in IT DR planning
  • Identify critical business functions and IT applications
  • Quantify the financial and non-financial impact of an outage
  • Determine IT outage threshold and set recovery priorities
  • Identify inter-dependencies of business and IT functions

Identify Technical Requirements

  • Able to identify data backup and data protection recovery strategies
  • Set consideration for strategy selection for various hardware platforms
  • Walkthrough and understand the use of data protection and recovery strategy
  • Understand cost benefit versus data availability and lower RPO

Develop DR Strategies

  • Identify and evaluate alternate site DR strategy
  • Appreciate factors and new technology impact to DR planning
  • Analyse and select the appropriate alternate site

DR strategy

  • Formulate an enterprise-wide DR strategy

Select DR Services

  • Understand the selection process for DR strategy
  • Establish the considerations for DR strategy selection
  • Confirm the provision of basic or mandatory resources
  • Determine the value added and support provisions from providers

Setup and Evaluate the Request for Proposal

  • Recognize the Request for Proposal (RFP) process
  • Setup the evaluation criteria and process
  • Understand the RFP document format and structure
  • Define the key contractual requirement and content of the RFP document

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.