ITCA 1374 - Fundamentals of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

3 Credits (2 hrs. lec., 3 hrs. lab.) This course is designed to expose students to fundamentals of disaster recovery and business continuity with knowledge/skills specific to (but not limited to): understanding the need for record retention, understanding the need for data backups, describe business continuity allowing business to remain operational. Prerequisite: None
Course Outcomes
1 - Describe the various methods of data retention and recovery.
2 - Describe the difference between a hot site data center and a cold site data center.
3 - Explain the procedures to restore business operations after a disaster or outage.
4 - Describe the need for business continuity.
5 - Design and develop disaster recovery plans to restore business continuity.