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ECCouncil EDRP
The EDRP certification exam validates IT professionals' mastery of disaster recovery fundamentals, business impact analysis, recovery strategies, backup and replication, and cloud DR, enabling them to design and implement resilient recovery plans.
240
Minutes
150
Questions
70/100
Passing Score
$350
Exam Cost
Who Should Take This
Mid‑level to senior IT managers, system architects, and infrastructure engineers who have at least three years of experience managing enterprise data and services. They seek to formalize their expertise, align recovery initiatives with business continuity goals, and demonstrate competence to leadership and auditors.
What's Covered
1
DR Fundamentals
2
Business Impact Analysis
3
Recovery Strategies
4
Backup and Replication
5
Cloud DR
6
DR Plan Development
7
Testing and Exercises
8
Business Continuity
9
Virtualization and App DR
10
Compliance and Program
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Practice Questions
Lesson Modules
Console Simulator Labs
Exam Tips & Strategy
20 Activity Formats
Course Outline
60 learning goals
1
DR Fundamentals
2 topics
DR principles
- Apply disaster recovery principles including RTO RPO MTPD and MAO to define recovery objectives and requirements.
- Analyze recovery requirements to determine appropriate strategies resource needs and technology investments.
- Design disaster recovery programs incorporating governance structures policy frameworks and continuous improvement.
Threat assessment
- Apply disaster threat assessment including natural technological human-caused and pandemic threats to DR planning.
- Analyze threat likelihood and impact to prioritize disaster scenarios and allocate recovery resources.
- Design threat assessment frameworks incorporating historical data scenario modeling and emerging threat identification.
2
Business Impact Analysis
2 topics
BIA methodology
- Apply BIA methodology including process identification dependency mapping and impact quantification for recovery.
- Analyze BIA results to prioritize recovery of critical processes and determine resource allocation requirements.
- Design BIA programs incorporating stakeholder interviews data collection templates and dependency discovery.
Recovery prioritization
- Apply recovery prioritization using BIA results to establish recovery sequence timing and resource allocation.
- Analyze interdependencies between processes to identify cascading failure risks and recovery sequencing constraints.
- Design recovery prioritization incorporating quantitative analysis resource constraints and stakeholder input.
3
Recovery Strategies
2 topics
Site strategies
- Apply recovery site strategies including hot warm cold mobile and cloud-based sites for infrastructure continuity.
- Analyze site options to evaluate cost recovery time capabilities and suitability for organizational requirements.
- Design site recovery incorporating geographic diversity capacity planning and vendor coordination for resilience.
Technology strategies
- Apply recovery technology including replication clustering failover and load balancing for service continuity.
- Analyze technology options to evaluate RPO achievement RTO capability and cost-effectiveness of solutions.
- Design technology recovery incorporating automated failover data synchronization and capacity management.
4
Backup and Replication
2 topics
Backup strategies
- Apply backup strategies including full incremental differential and synthetic methods with appropriate scheduling.
- Analyze backup effectiveness to evaluate completion rates data integrity and recovery capability validation.
- Design enterprise backup incorporating tiered storage retention policies and automated validation procedures.
Data replication
- Apply replication including synchronous asynchronous and semi-synchronous methods for continuous data protection.
- Analyze replication to identify consistency risks latency impacts and failover readiness across environments.
- Design replication architectures incorporating multi-site synchronization bandwidth optimization and consistency.
5
Cloud DR
2 topics
Cloud recovery
- Apply cloud DR including DRaaS cloud backup multi-region deployment and cloud failover configuration.
- Analyze cloud DR to evaluate RTO RPO capability cost models and data sovereignty compliance requirements.
- Design cloud DR architectures incorporating multi-region deployment automated failover and hybrid strategies.
Hybrid DR
- Apply hybrid DR combining on-premises and cloud recovery for optimized cost flexibility and recovery capability.
- Analyze hybrid DR to identify synchronization gaps failover complexity and management overhead.
- Design hybrid DR incorporating workload classification cloud migration planning and orchestrated recovery.
6
DR Plan Development
2 topics
Plan documentation
- Apply DR plan documentation including recovery procedures team responsibilities communications and resource inventories.
- Analyze DR plan completeness to identify procedural gaps outdated information and insufficient execution detail.
- Design DR plan frameworks incorporating modular structure role-based procedures and automated distribution.
Communication planning
- Apply crisis communication planning including notification procedures stakeholder messaging and media coordination.
- Analyze communication plan effectiveness to identify notification gaps timing issues and message clarity problems.
- Design communication frameworks incorporating cascading notification automated alerting and multi-channel messaging.
7
Testing and Exercises
2 topics
Testing methods
- Apply DR testing including tabletop walkthrough simulation parallel and full-interruption tests for plan validation.
- Analyze test results to identify plan weaknesses procedural gaps and performance issues requiring remediation.
- Design DR testing programs incorporating escalating complexity scheduling and metrics for improvement tracking.
Exercise management
- Apply exercise management including scenario development participant coordination observation and after-action reporting.
- Analyze exercise outcomes to evaluate team performance decision-making quality and coordination effectiveness.
- Design exercise programs incorporating realistic scenarios skill-building progression and improvement feedback.
8
Business Continuity
2 topics
BC planning
- Apply BC planning including strategy development plan documentation and integration with disaster recovery programs.
- Analyze BC plan effectiveness to evaluate coverage completeness resource adequacy and DR coordination.
- Design integrated BC/DR programs incorporating aligned strategies shared resources and coordinated testing.
Organizational resilience
- Apply organizational resilience including supply chain continuity workforce continuity and operational adaptation.
- Analyze organizational resilience to identify single points of failure dependency risks and adaptation gaps.
- Design resilience programs incorporating redundancy diversification flexibility and adaptive capacity.
9
Virtualization and App DR
2 topics
VM recovery
- Apply VM disaster recovery including replication snapshot management and orchestrated failover procedures.
- Analyze VM recovery to evaluate replication health failover readiness and data consistency assurance.
- Design VM recovery incorporating automated orchestration application-consistent snapshots and tiered recovery.
Application recovery
- Apply application-level DR including database replication application clustering and service restoration.
- Analyze application dependencies to identify recovery sequencing data consistency needs and integration points.
- Design application recovery incorporating microservice resilience database failover and API continuity.
10
Compliance and Program
2 topics
DR compliance
- Apply DR compliance including regulatory mandates industry standards and audit preparation for DR programs.
- Analyze compliance posture to identify DR control gaps documentation weaknesses and regulatory changes.
- Design DR compliance incorporating control mapping evidence collection and continuous compliance monitoring.
Program maintenance
- Apply DR program maintenance including plan updates technology refresh training programs and budget management.
- Analyze program effectiveness to identify maintenance gaps capability degradation and improvement priorities.
- Design DR program lifecycle incorporating regular review technology assessment and continuous improvement.
Scope
Included Topics
- EC-Council EDRP covering disaster recovery planning business continuity risk assessment and organizational resilience.
- DR planning including strategy development plan documentation testing and maintenance lifecycle management.
- Business continuity including BIA recovery strategy and continuity plan development integration.
- Recovery technologies including backup replication high availability and cloud disaster recovery solutions.
- Compliance and program management including regulatory requirements audit coordination and continuous improvement.
Not Covered
- Network defense covered by CND.
- Incident handling covered by ECIH.
- Security governance covered by CCISO/EISM.
- Digital forensics covered by CHFI.
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