DRP Maintenance and Testing

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DRP Maintenance and Testing

• Dhammica De Silva
• Senior Technical Officer

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Welcome to the mundane

• What comes after the key is turned?
• Preferably, everyone wants silence.
• One of most tedious jobs in the world.
• you end up hoping for a small disaster.
• The workload ..
• Maintain the system
• Test the system
• Doesnt get much more critical than this!

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Operations Framework
Project Vs. Process
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Operational Management
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Why test and maintain?

• Three major points to keep in mind
• Viable and Readied action plan
• DRP currency
• Recovery

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Maintaining the plan

• Helps ensure currency of what is to be recovered
• Changes, changes, and changes
• Test results may indicate problem areas
• Addition of new equipment, application, etc.
• Changes to HW, SW, network, etc.
• Regular, and surprise reviews.

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Testing the plan

• Testing results feed maintenance
• Testing the plan needs a plan
• Parameters, objectives, criteria, method, etc.
• Problems are an opportunity to improve
• Important criteria for designing tests
• Comprehensive testing of entire plan
• Non-prohibitive costs of test procedures
• Minimal disturbances to normal operations
• Maximum reliability and accuracy of test result
  data
• Usefulness of test data.

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Standard testing methodologies

• Checklist Testing
• Walk through testing
• Virtual Machine Technology
• Simulation Testing
• Parallel Testing
• Full-Interruption Testing

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Maintain your will, test your patience..