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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Professional Curricula     Internet and Network Technologies Solution Area     Site Reliability Engineering     Backup & Recovery Best Practices

Disasters can occur at any time and to any sized organization, so administrators should invest the time and resources to properly plan for business continuity and disaster recovery. In this course, you’ll learn how to plan for business continuity, assess risk, and perform business impact assessments. You’ll also learn about system resilience, sensitive data types, and data classifications. Lastly, you’ll see a comparison of Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective, and examine what to include when preparing a disaster recovery training plan.



Objectives

Backup & Recovery: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • describe system resilience and fault tolerance
  • recognize what data to include in a backup, such as full operating system, personal files, and company data
  • identify and classify assets such as PII, PHI, and proprietary data
  • provide an overview of data classifications such as Top Secret, Secret, Confidential, and Unclassified
  • recognize the financial impact of a large data breach or cyber incident
  • provide an overview of performing a business impact assessment
  • recognize different types of risks to consider
  • describe elements of continuity planning such as strategy and processes
  • define appropriate service levels
  • provide an overview of data protection solutions that can be used to protect against security issues and reduce the risk of compromised data
  • provide an overview of common roles and responsibilities of an administrator when it comes to data backups and recovery
  • provide an overview of Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective and how they can relate to a timely recovery
  • describe elements to include when preparing a disaster recovery training plan
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course