Disaster Recovery Planning (CPE Course)
CPE Credit: 6 hours
Course Type: Downloaded PDF materials with online test
Price (with PDF Textbook): $54
Course Description
Even a well-run company can be brought down by a disaster, such as a fire or flood. In the Disaster Recovery Planning course, we describe how to identify risk areas and create and test a plan for how to deal with them. Topics covered include risk analysis, developing a recovery strategy, crisis management, disaster recovery priorities, and dozens of best practices for mitigating all kinds of disasters. This is the go-to guide for setting up a disaster recovery plan.
Author: Steven Bragg
Course Number: IT0001
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Project Planning Considerations
Chapter 2. When to Develop a Plan
Chapter 3. How to Evaluate Risk
Chapter 4. Recovery Strategy Formulation
Chapter 5. Initial Enhancements
Chapter 6. The Disaster Recovery Plan
Chapter 7. Crisis Management
Chapter 8. Plan Testing
Chapter 9. Policy Adjustments
Chapter 10. Disaster-Related Best Practices
Learning Objectives
Identify the triggering events for disaster recovery planning.
Specify the roles of the parties identified in a disaster recovery plan.
Identify how the scope should be set for a disaster recovery plan.
Specify the nature of the recovery time objective and recovery point objective.
Identify the different tranches of risk types.
Recall the risk evaluation information that can be obtained from federal agencies.
Specify the purpose of a recovery strategy.
Specify which assets should be included on an asset identification list.
Specify why spare parts storage should be centralized.
Recall the type of user for which a disaster recovery plan should be written.
Recall the tools that can accompany the different types of recovery plans.
Specify the different recovery options for a work space.
Recall how to distribute a disaster recovery plan to targeted recipients.
Recall who needs to be kept informed about a disaster.
Recall how and where an emergency operations center should be set up and configured.
Specify the assumptions underlying an IT recovery plan.
Identify the requirements for a proper recovery plan testing strategy.
Recall how various company policies can be adjusted to align with company needs in a disaster.
Specify the information that should be shared with customers during an emergency.
Recall how to identify critical business records for extraction during an emergency.
Recall the storage protocols for business records.
Specify the types of fires on which various types of fire extinguishers should be used.
Level: Overview
Instructional Method: QAS Self-Study
NASBA Category: Information Technology
Prerequisites: None
Advance Preparation: None
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The NASBA sponsor identification number for Accountingtools, Inc. is 115881.
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