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Professional Certificate · Bachelor's level · CPP-21
Backup and Disaster Recovery Planning
For: Systems and network administrators, IT technicians and operations managers responsible for backups and IT service continuity.
Learning outcomes
- Design a backup policy suited to requirements.
- Develop a business continuity plan and a disaster recovery plan.
- Evaluate a plan through a restore test.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Continuity requirements in the event of a disaster, an attack or a prolonged outage: maximum tolerable downtime, acceptable data loss. |
| Week 2 | Backups: strategies, off-site copies, offline copies; implementing a backup policy in a virtual lab. |
| Week 3 | Business continuity plan and disaster recovery plan: roles, procedures, priorities. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: backup policy and annotated restore test on a lab environment, checked against continuity requirements. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): backup policy and annotated restore test in a virtual lab; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). The backed-up data are fictitious; no exercise is carried out on a live system.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Recovery Plan Exercises and Documentation
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-21C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Continuity and recovery exercises: preparation, conduct, debrief.
- Documenting the disaster recovery plan and updating it after each test.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Experience in system administration assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Bachelor's degree in Network and Information Systems Administration and Security, within a period set by the certificate regulations.