Disaster Recovery Foundation

Disaster Recovery Foundation develops practical capability to develop foundational disaster recovery capability from governance and impact analysis through strategy, plan execution, testing, and assurance. The learning path begins with recovery governance, policy, programme, scope, roles, risk, and service inventory and progresses into business impact analysis, dependencies, rto, rpo, mtpd, priorities, and resource requirements, connecting requirements and methods with clear ownership, defensible evidence, and measurable decisions.

Applied work is anchored to an enterprise coordinating technology recovery across data centers, cloud services, business teams, vendors, and crisis communications. Learners then address technology recovery, data protection, sites, suppliers, communications, and plan development and exercises, failover validation, metrics, maintenance, audit, lessons, and continual readiness, producing DR programme charter and service inventory, BIA and recovery objective register, technology recovery plan portfolio, exercise evidence and readiness report.

By completion, participants can interpret the subject, perform the relevant workflow, evaluate exceptions, communicate supported conclusions, and hand over prioritized actions with named ownership and follow-up.

What You Will Learn

• Establish disaster recovery governance, programme scope, policy, roles, and service inventory.
• Conduct business impact analysis using dependencies, priorities, RTO, RPO, and MTPD.
• Define resource requirements for technology, people, facilities, suppliers, communications, and data.
• Select recovery strategies that balance resilience, cost, risk, and operational feasibility.
• Develop actionable recovery procedures for systems, data, sites, suppliers, and communication channels.
• Plan exercises and failover tests that verify recovery objectives under realistic conditions.
• Measure readiness through evidence, metrics, audit findings, lessons, and maintenance records.
• Improve recovery capability by resolving gaps and updating plans after organizational change.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Training follows disaster recovery foundation work from context and planning through implementation, evidence review, exception analysis, validation, and improvement. Delivery combines instructor demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, course-specific checklists, structured troubleshooting, and a final improvement plan.