Disaster Recovery & High Availability

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 6 minIT & TechnologyLesson 7 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: reassure a worried executive about disaster readiness — concrete recovery targets, drill evidence, honest limits — without promising the impossible.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Reassure the worried executive

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What 'prepared' sounds like to an executive

    Read a 243-word text about What 'prepared' sounds like to an executive

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: DR & HA Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: RTO/RPO Planning Framework

    RTO/RPO Planning, 3 steps

  4. Reading10 min

    Reading: Three model briefings

    Read a 377-word text about Three model briefings

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match DR & HA Concepts

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: DR Planning Meeting

    Role-play: You are presenting a disaster recovery plan to your CTO after a recent incident at a competitor made leadership concerned about your own readiness (8 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Face the worried executive

    3 discussion questions

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disaster recoveryfailoverredundancyRTORPOavailability zone

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