EC-Council Disaster Recovery Professional v3 (EDRP) — Lesson 1: Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, Dependencies, and Recovery Objectives

Learning Objectives

• Explain the structures, services, data, settings, roles, and dependencies governing Risk Scenarios and Business Impact Analysis.
• Implement and validate Critical Services, Dependency Mapping, and Rto and Rpo using reviewable evidence.
• Evaluate the condition where the observed result differs from the approved Risk Scenarios baseline because Business Impact Analysis scope, permissions, or prerequisites were missed and select a proportionate corrective response.

Detailed Topics

• Risk Scenarios applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• Business Impact Analysis applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• Critical Services applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• Dependency Mapping applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• Rto and Rpo applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces an organization must restore priority services after a severe disruption while meeting recovery objectives, governance duties, and stakeholder expectations. The walkthrough connects tools, configuration or analysis logic, system messages, decisions, and evidence captured in the business impact analysis, recovery strategy, exercise evidence, and maintenance roadmap. It also tests the exception where the observed result differs from the approved Risk Scenarios baseline because Business Impact Analysis scope, permissions, or prerequisites were missed.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled, authorized EC-Council exercise covering Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, Dependencies, and Recovery Objectives and preserve the verified result in the business impact analysis, recovery strategy, exercise evidence, and maintenance roadmap.

1. Confirm scope, authorization, prerequisites, versions, identities, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
2. Execute the workflow while recording settings, outputs, events, decisions, and system messages.
3. Test normal behavior, one boundary condition, and the stated exception without targeting real third-party systems.
4. Document corrections, evidence, ownership, retest criteria, rollback or recovery, and handover actions.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which object, service, policy, setting, or sequence most strongly influences Risk Scenarios.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain technical, security, operational, legal, and support trade-offs.
• Determine how the business impact analysis, recovery strategy, exercise evidence, and maintenance roadmap should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start where expected behavior first differs from the observed result. Check authorization, prerequisites, identity, configuration order, data quality, version compatibility, connectivity, status, resource limits, and evidence separately. Treat “the observed result differs from the approved Risk Scenarios baseline because Business Impact Analysis scope, permissions, or prerequisites were missed” as a hypothesis until logs, settings, captured outputs, and retest outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required components, identities, permissions, settings, safety controls, and dependencies are present.
• The business impact analysis, recovery strategy, exercise evidence, and maintenance roadmap connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable evidence.
• Normal processing, a boundary condition, dependency behavior, and the stated exception were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, rollback or recovery, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, Dependencies, and Recovery Objectives, explain the resulting security or operational behavior, and defend the outcome through the business impact analysis, recovery strategy, exercise evidence, and maintenance roadmap.