What is the certification for Disaster recovery for computer systems?

Question

What is the test and how do you study for it?

I want to be able to write the DR plan for companies

Answer 1

I can help and read no further posts. The certification you benefit you the most is CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). You may have to do some deep research but Information Assurance would be the major that would impress employers the most.

When dealing with DRP's (Disaster Recovery Plans) it is a requirement that is a part of Business Continuity. It must be formalized and written out and documented within a SSAA (System Security Authorization Agreement) Once the Disaster Recovery Plan is documented and tested in phases it then goes through with the rest of appendices that make up the C & A (Certification & Accredidation) packages which are composed of the SSAA.

So to take things in perspective, the DRP is one addendix of the SSAA which is normally written by C & A analysts. Once approved by the ISO (Information Security Officer) or IAM (Information Assurance Manager ) it gets submitted or stored for keeping with the company. This is used in case of natural disasters, power outage etc.

The CISSP subject matter is too in depth to understand every principle of Security. It is best described as a topic that is a mile long and only covered at an inch deep. DRP's are in Chapter 9 of one of the best CISSP books written by Shon Harris. The CISSP test itself costs about 500 bucks and is 250 questions, so make sure you are well prepared before forking out the money to take it.

Good luck and if you have any future questions, I will look for them :o)

Answer 2

As you're stating "Disaster Recovery", I assume you are asking about solutions for a company and not individual "Business Continuity" or "Contingency Planning" certification.

It depends on your current enterprise solutions (mainframe/LAN/WAN/Client/Server/remote capabilities), the data being processed/stored,and the size of your company that you want to get certified. That will determine your hot/cold site requirements.

Your company does not "study" for it. You actually test it in a DR environment (obviously you don't run this sort of thing in a production environment, but you don't use a test environment, either).

Answer 3

Disaster recovery is when your computer crashes and makes a blue screen, and when you turn it back on it says it is recovering from a serious error. I do not know what the test is but i think it has something to do with fixing the problem

Answer 4

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