Duration

2 days

Synopsis

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.

Course Objectives

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

Audience

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

Pre-Requisite

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

Module 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

Module 2: 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

Module 3: 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

Module 4: 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

Module 5: 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

Module 6: 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

Module 7: 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

Module 8: 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 sitenDR strategy
Formulate an enterprise-wide DR strategy

Module 9: 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

Module 10: 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.