IT Disaster Recovery Planning Training

Learning Outcomes

• Analyze organizational IT risks and critical systems to prioritize recovery objectives.
• Design a comprehensive IT disaster recovery plan aligned with business continuity goals.
• Implement recovery strategies for data, applications, and network infrastructure.
• Evaluate disaster recovery plan effectiveness through testing and simulation exercises.
• Demonstrate compliance with relevant legal, regulatory, and industry standards.
• Apply continuous improvement processes to update and maintain the disaster recovery plan.

Target Audience

IT managers, systems administrators, and business continuity professionals responsible for protecting organizational data and IT infrastructure. Also suitable for consultants and team leads involved in disaster recovery planning.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment. However, basic familiarity with IT infrastructure and business operations is advantageous.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Learners apply DR planning concepts through hands-on exercises including risk assessment, strategy selection, plan drafting, and simulation testing. These practicals ensure learners can operationalise the theory into a usable disaster recovery plan.

Practical Activities

• Risk Assessment and BIA Workshop — Learners perform a risk assessment and business impact analysis on a case study organisation, identifying critical assets and determining RPO/RTO. (4h)
• Recovery Strategy Design Exercise — Learners design recovery strategies (backup, replication, alternative sites) for different systems and justify cost-benefit decisions. (4h)
• DRP Drafting and Documentation — Learners draft a full disaster recovery plan based on the previous exercises, including procedures, roles, and communication plans. (4h)
• Tabletop Simulation and Test Evaluation — Learners participate in a tabletop simulation of a disaster scenario, then analyse test results and propose improvements. (4h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.