Duration

1 day

Overview

The DRP-200 IT Disaster Recovery Planner is an introductory 1.5 days foundation course on the IT Disaster Recovery. This course allows participants to have the fundamentals needed in IT DR and its relationship to BC. It allows participants to have a good start to planning for IT DR as it exposes them to conducting an IT and Infrastructure risk analysis and review (RA). It’s a good foundation course for anyone interested to know more about IT DR but has very little access to them.

Target Audience

System Administrators and Managers;
Database Managers and Administrators;
DR Coordinators;
Project Managers involved in application development, systems and network implementation and support; systems support engineers and consultants.

Course Objective

Under the fundamentals of IT DR, crisis management and business continuity management.
Assess risk to IT and technology related components within the IT environment.

Pre-requisite

Newly appointed IT DR professional to be appointed as part of a IT DR team.

Course Outline

This is a 1 day course with a DRCP examination on the following day, upon successful completion of the course.

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

The DRCP examination consists of 50 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) electronic based examinations. The examination which lasts for 1.5 hours would need candidates to achieve a 75% passing grade.

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