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Testing, training, and maintenance

Testing, training, and maintenance

From the course: CISA Cert Prep: 2 Information Technology Governance and Management for IS Auditors

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Testing, training, and maintenance

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- [Instructor] Testing and training and maintenance of your business continuity plan. Alright so let's talk about test objectives. So we want to identify specific success criteria and then test for those things. Like was our response within an acceptable time frame? Remember our MTDs, our maximum tolerable downtimes, were we able to get up and running well within those MTDs? Operations at the alternative locations adequate. Were we able to get up and running at the hotsite successfully and was that processing sufficient to handle the load? Were the backups successfully restored? Did they actually restore when we went to restore them? You know the old story of the guy who took the backup tapes home on the train every night and he left them on top of a magnet that was running underneath an electrical train and all of his tapes were blank by the time he came to restore them. Well in this case, can you restore those tapes? Are they actually restorable? Were the emergency personnel and the…

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