Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager Training in South Africa

  • Learn via: Classroom
  • Duration: 4 Days
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Price: From €3,640+VAT
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The Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager is a four-day training course intended to help participants acquire the necessary expertise to support an organisation in establishing, implementing, and managing a disaster recovery planning project.

Disastrous events, which may be caused by natural, human, or technological hazards, significantly affect an organisation’s ability to reach its objectives. In addition, the operations of many organisations are threatened due to a disaster after they cannot respond to or recover from the disaster adequately. That is why organisations should focus on developing capacities to prevent, anticipate, manage, and recover from disasters effectively through well-planned and tested disaster recovery plans (DRP).

An understanding of disaster recovery principles.

Target Audience:

  • Professionals or consultants seeking to learn how to implement disaster recovery planning projects, conduct risk assessments and BIAs, and carry out disaster recovery testing and performance measurements
  • Managers responsible for establishing a disaster recovery plan in an organisation
  • Individuals responsible for maintaining the IT infrastructure in an organisation
  • Members of a disaster recovery team

After successfully completing the training course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the fundamental concepts of disaster recovery and its tiers
  • Initiate the disaster recovery planning project based on best practices
  • Conduct a risk assessment and business impact analysis and design mitigation strategies
  • Develop a disaster recovery plan and analyse the incident response plan, emergency plan, and crisis management plan
  • Conduct disaster recovery testing and performance measurements

The PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager training course provides an approach to managing a disaster recovery planning project and developing and implementing an information and communications technology (ICT) disaster recovery plan. It equips participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to analyse the incident response plan, emergency plan, and crisis management plan, and conduct disaster recovery testing and performance measurements. By attending this training course, you will be introduced to disaster recovery best practices and will learn how to conduct a risk assessment and business impact analysis (BIA) for disaster recovery.

After attending the course, you are eligible to apply for sitting the exam. If you successfully pass the exam, you can apply for the “PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager” credential. This credential will demonstrate your knowledge and professional capabilities to support and lead disaster recovery teams in implementing disaster recovery strategies based on best practices.

Exam details:

The “PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager” exam meets all the requirements of the PECB Examination and Certification Program (ECP). It covers the following competency domains:

  • Domain 1: Fundamental concepts of disaster recovery
  • Domain 2: Planning disaster recovery
  • Domain 3: Development and activation of the disaster recovery plan
  • Domain 4: Selection of the disaster recovery site and competence development
  • Domain 5: Disaster recovery testing and maintenance

For specific information about the exam type, languages available, and other details, please visit the List of PECB Exams and the Examination Rules and Policies.

What's included:

  • Certification and examination fees are included in the price of the training course.
  • Training material containing over 450 pages of information and practical examples will be distributed to participants.
  • An attestation of course completion worth 31 CPD (Continuing Professional Development) credits will be issued to participants who have attended the training course.
  • If candidates fail the exam for the first time, they are eligible to retake it for free within a 12-month period following the initial attempt.


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Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

27 January 2025 (4 Days)
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
27 January 2025 (4 Days)
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
11 March 2025 (4 Days)
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
17 March 2025 (4 Days)
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
€3,640 +VAT
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26 March 2025 (4 Days)
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
11 March 2025 (4 Days)
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
17 March 2025 (4 Days)
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
€3,640 +VAT
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13 April 2025 (4 Days)
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager Training Course in South Africa

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