Certified Disaster Recovery Engineer (CDRE)

Course Description

The Certified Disaster Recovery Engineer (CDRE) course is based on the curriculum recommended by Mile2 for the CDRE certification. CDRE is a vendor-neutral certification that enables the candidates to learn and implement ways to respond in a disaster situation. This includes threats such as cyber-crime, information leakage, natural calamity and power shut-down etc. The course also enables the students to establish business continuity and disaster recovery plans based on the industry best-practices.

The goal of Certified Disaster Recovery Engineer (CDRE) course is to enable the candidates to keep the critical business functions of any organization operational during the time of crisis or disaster. The main component of any organization that is most critical for its survival is information technology. All of the systems in a modern enterprise depend on the IT infrastructure. Hence, the need to have a comprehensive DR & BCP plan is very essential for any organization.

Exam Information

The Certified Disaster Recovery Engineer exam is taken online through Mile2’s Assessment and Certification System (“MACS”), which is accessible on your mile2 account. The exam will take 2 hours and consist of 100 multiple choice questions.

Target Audience

• IT security managers and officers
• Risk managers
• Project managers
• Datacenter managers
• BCP engineers
• IS control assessors

Requirements

The course does not have any formal pre-requisites, however, it is best-suited to the prospective candidates having one year of professional experience in managing information or IT systems.