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ECP-101 Review Course - Essentials of Business Continuity Planning - Course fee includes the CCM exam fee.
ECP-101 Review Course - Essentials of Business Continuity Planning - Course fee includes the CCM exam fee.
Course Description
This course provides a high level review of the Business Continuity Management Life Cycle, in preparation for the CCM (Certified Continuity Manager) certification exam.
Audience
This course is intended for consultants, executives, managers and staff in large and small size companies, and public sector organizations, with significant prior training/experience in Business Continuity Planning.
Duration
.5 day
Topics covered include:
Six Elements of the BCM Life Cycle
Element One: Understanding the Organization
- Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis
- Collecting and Compiling the Data
- Analyzing the Data and Determining Options
- Identifying critical business processes
- Determining impacts of business interruption
- Assessing the time-sensitivity of impacts
- Developing impact mitigation strategies
- Establishing the 'maximum tolerable downtime' of critical processes
- Determining minimum resource requirements for business resumption
- Preparing and presenting a Business Impact Assessment report
- Interview techniques
Element Two: Determining BCM strategy
- Identifying Strategies to Reduce Risk and Impact
- Fast Tracking the Process
- Overview of Computer Recovery Planning
- Overview of Business Resumption Planning
- Identifying planning assumptions
Element Three: Developing and implementing a BCM response
- What Do I Do Next? Implementing the Strategies
- Establishing Business Unit Recovery teams
- Implementing a Crisis Management Framework
- Documenting recovery strategies and resource requirements
- Developing activity and task lists for each phase of the recovery
- Documenting tasks and compiling supporting information
- Crisis Management Planning – Phases 1-5
Element 4: Exercising, Maintenance and Review
- Testing and Validating BCP plans
- Exercising BCP teams
- Auditing and Evaluating BCP plans
Element 5: Embedding BCM in the Organization’s Culture
- Developing a BCM Awareness & Training program
- Defining your Company’s A&T Requirements
- Designing your A&T Program
- Implementing the A&T Program
- Measuring A&T Program Effectiveness
Element 6: BCM Program Management
- Setting corporate policies, objectives and budgets
- Assigning accountability for the Continuity program
- Enabling the BCP program
- Maintaining and Administering BCP plans
- Maintaining Management Commitment
- Business Continuity Best Practices
Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to successfully challenge the CCM certification exam
