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Plan testing, training, and exercise

Plan testing, training, and exercise

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Plan testing, training, and exercise

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- [Instructor] Okay, the next to last phase of continuity planning per NIST 800-34 is the plan testing, training, and exercise phase. So this is where we're going to plan how we're going to go about making sure that our contingency plans are complete and that they are effective or are going to be effective. So when we talk about the testing plan, like I said, we're verifying the plan for accuracy and completeness. This should happen once a year or as the result of a major change. So we're going to conduct different types of tests depending on our needs, but our goal is to always make sure that we have a current and update plan, 'cause you never know when we're going to need it. So when we talk about the different types of tests, we have a checklist test, which is what we often start out with. And with checklist tests, we're essentially handing out a checklist to our department heads, kind of saying, "Hey, did we think of everything?" Then, we bring those managers in together with our…

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