Duration
2.5 days
Prerequisite
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Course Methodology
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Lesson 2: Understand IT DR and BCM Fundamentals
- Understand DR and BCM fundamentals and concepts
- Be aware of your role in your organization’s DR efforts
- Recognize the implication of international standards to DR planning within yourorganisation
- Appreciate the benefits and success factor when implementing the DR program
Lesson 3: 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
Lesson 4: 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
Lesson 5: 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
Lesson 6: 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
Lesson 7: Identify the Impacts to Business Due to a Disaster
- Understand BIA, PRO 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
Lesson 8: 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
Lesson 9: Develop DR Strategies
- Identify and evaluate alternate site DR strategy
- Appreciate factors and new technology impact to IT DR planning
- Analyse and select the appropriate alternate site DR strategy
- Formulate a enterprise-wide DR strategy
Lesson 10: Select DR Services
- Understand 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
Lesson 11: 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.