The Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager is a four-day training course intended to help participants acquire the necessary expertise to support an organization in establishing, implementing, and managing a disaster recovery planning project.
Why Should You Attend?
Disastrous events, which may be caused by natural, human, or technological hazards, significantly affect an organization’s ability to reach its objectives. In addition, the operations of many organizations are threatened due to a disaster after they cannot respond to or recover from the disaster adequately. That is why organizations should focus on developing capacities to prevent, anticipate, manage, and recover from disasters effectively through well-planned and tested disaster recovery plans (DRP).
The PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager training course provides an approach to managing a disaster recovery planning project and developing and implementing an information and communications technology (ICT) disaster recovery plan. It equips participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to analyze the incident response plan, emergency plan, and crisis management plan, and conduct disaster recovery testing and performance measurements. By attending this training course, you will be introduced to disaster recovery best practices and will learn how to conduct a risk assessment and business impact analysis (BIA) for disaster recovery.
After attending the course, you are eligible to apply for sitting the exam. If you successfully pass the exam, you can apply for the “PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager” credential. This credential will demonstrate your knowledge and professional capabilities to support and lead disaster recovery teams in implementing disaster recovery strategies based on best practices.
Who Should Attend?
This training course is intended for:
- Professionals or consultants seeking to learn how to implement disaster recovery planning projects, conduct risk assessments and BIAs, and carry out disaster recovery testing and performance measurements
- Managers responsible for establishing a disaster recovery plan in an organization
- Individuals responsible for maintaining the IT infrastructure in an organization
- Members of a disaster recovery team
Learning Objectives
By the end of the training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the fundamental concepts of disaster recovery and its tiers
- Initiate the disaster recovery planning project based on best practices
- Conduct a risk assessment and business impact analysis and design mitigation strategies
- Develop a disaster recovery plan and analyze the incident response plan, emergency plan, and crisis management plan
- Conduct disaster recovery testing and performance measurements
Educational Approach
- The training is based both on theoretical concepts and best practices for disaster recovery planning.
- The training course comprises practical exercises (some of which are based on a case study) and multiple-choice quizzes (some of which are based on scenarios).
- The structure of quizzes is similar to that of the certification exam.
Prerequisites
The main requirement for participating in this training course is having a general knowledge of disaster recovery concepts and strategies.
More Details
Course agenda
- Day 1: Introduction to disaster recovery planning and risk assessment
- Day 2: Business impact analysis and development of the disaster recovery plan (DRP)
- Day 3: DRP subparts, recovery sites, and activation of the DRP
- Day 4: Disaster recovery testing, performance measurement, and continual improvement
- Day 5: Certification exam
Examination
The “PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager” exam meets all the requirements of the PECB Examination and Certification Program (ECP). It covers the following competency domains:
- Domain 1: Fundamental concepts of disaster recovery
- Domain 2: Planning disaster recovery
- Domain 3: Development and activation of the disaster recovery plan
- Domain 4: Selection of the disaster recovery site and competence development
- Domain 5: Disaster recovery testing and maintenance
Certification
After passing the exam, participants can apply for one of the credentials shown below. Participants will receive a certificate once they fulfill all the requirements of the selected credential.
| Credential | Exam | Professional experience | DRMS project experience | Other requirements |
| PECB Certified Provisional Disaster Recovery Manager | PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager Exam or equivalent | None | None | Signing the PECB Code of Ethics |
| PECB Certified Disaster Recovery Manager | PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager Exam or equivalent | Two years: One year of work experience in ICT Disaster Recovery Management | ICT Disaster Recovery activities: a total of 200 hours | Signing the PECB Code of Ethics |
| PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager | PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager Exam or equivalent | Five years: Two years of work experience in ICT Disaster Recovery Management | ICT Disaster Recovery activities: a total of 300 hours | Signing the PECB Code of Ethics |
| PECB Certified Senior Lead Disaster Recovery Manager | PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager Exam or equivalent | Ten years: Seven years of work experience in ICT Disaster Recovery Management | ICT Disaster Recovery activities: a total of 1,000 hours | Signing the PECB Code of Ethics |
To be considered valid, the disaster recovery activities should include the following:
- Developing a disaster recovery plan
- Conducting risk assessments for disaster recovery
- Conducting disaster recovery BIAs
- Selecting and implementing disaster recovery strategies
- Testing and implementing disaster recovery plans
For more information about disaster recovery certifications and the PECB Certification process, please refer to Certification Rules and Policies.
General Information
- Certification and examination fees are included in the price of the training course.
- Training material containing over 450 pages of information and practical examples will be distributed to participants.
- An attestation of course completion worth 31 CPD (Continuing Professional Development) credits will be issued to participants who have attended the training course.
- If candidates fail the exam for the first time, they are eligible to retake it for free within a 12-month period following the initial attempt.
