EC-COUNCILEC-Council Disaster Recovery Professional
The EC-Council Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP) certification validates your ability to plan, strategize, implement, and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Designed for IT professionals, BC/DR consultants, and career starters, it equips you to conduct business impact analyses, assess risks, and develop policies that keep organizations resilient when disaster strikes. Earning EDRP proves you can minimize disruption and protect critical data in the face of increasingly frequent cyber-attacks and natural disasters.
524 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
EDRP Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the EDRP exam measures.
- Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity
- Key Terminology in BC/DR
- Disaster Types and Impact
- BC/DR Planning Process
- Regulatory and Compliance Considerations
- Roles and Responsibilities in BC/DR
- BCM Definition and Scope
- BCM Lifecycle Phases
- BCM Program Governance
- BCM Policy and Strategy
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Risk Assessment in BCM
- BCM Plan Development
- BCM Implementation and Embedding
- BCM Testing and Exercising
- BCM Maintenance and Review
- BCM Integration with Other Disciplines
- Risk Assessment Fundamentals
- Risk Identification
- Risk Analysis Methodologies
- Risk Evaluation and Treatment
- Risk Assessment Documentation
- BIA Purpose and Scope
- BIA Process Steps
- Identifying Critical Business Functions
- Impact Assessment Criteria
- Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- Dependencies and Interdependencies
- BIA Data Collection Methods
- BIA Report and Documentation
- BCP Overview
- BCP Lifecycle
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Risk Assessment in BCP
- BCP Strategy Development
- BCP Plan Documentation
- BCP Testing and Exercising
- BCP Maintenance and Update
- Disaster Recovery Planning Process Overview
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Risk Assessment in DR Planning
- Defining Recovery Objectives
- Developing Recovery Strategies
- DR Plan Documentation
- Plan Testing and Validation
- Plan Maintenance and Continuous Improvement
- BCP Testing Overview
- Types of BCP Tests
- Test Scope and Frequency
- Test Documentation and Evaluation
- BCP Maintenance Process
- Change Management and Version Control
- Training Program Design
- Training Delivery and Assessment
- Awareness and Culture
- Continuous Improvement
- Backup Fundamentals
- Backup Types
- Backup Methods
- Backup Topologies
- Backup Retention Policies
- Backup Scheduling
- Backup Storage Management
- Backup Verification
- Backup Security
- Data Recovery Strategies Overview
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
- Backup Methods
- Replication Strategies
- Snapshot Technologies
- Data Archiving vs. Backup
- Tiered Recovery Approaches
- Restoration Procedures
- Disaster Recovery Site Options
- Cloud-Based Recovery
- Testing and Validation of Recovery Plans
- Virtualization Fundamentals
- Virtualization-Based DR Strategies
- Replication and Synchronization
- Snapshot and Backup Management
- Failover and Failback Procedures
- Testing and Validation
- Security and Compliance
- System Recovery Overview
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
- System Backup Methods
- Bare-Metal Restore
- System State Recovery
- Virtual Machine Recovery
- Recovery Testing and Validation
- Automated Recovery Tools
- Documentation and Runbooks
- Centralized System Recovery
- Decentralized System Recovery
- Comparison of Centralized and Decentralized Recovery
- Use Cases for Centralized Recovery
- Use Cases for Decentralized Recovery
- Implementation Considerations
Percentages reflect share of the current practice bank, not official exam weightings — no structured per-skill weight is published for EDRP, so none is invented.