[DR] How to Obtain Your IT Disaster Recovery Certification?

Congratulations.  You have successfully completed our certification course and examination and now is the time to verify your experience to match the appropriate certification. 

BCM Institute's certifications are available for all IT Disaster Recovery professionals who would like to get their experience and competency validated by an independent IT Disaster Recovery professionals serving on BCM Institute's certification committee.

Our certifications are available for all crisis management professionals (at the Planner, Specialist and Expert Level) who would like to get their experience and competency validated by an independent crisis management certification body.

Here, we able to advise you on ways to obtain your crisis communication certification.

Attending and Passing the Examination

Upon attending any of our IT Disaster Recovery courses we offer, you must pass your examination.

For other than the DR Certified Planner (DRCP) certification, you are required to send in an application form detailing your experience in crisis management in relation to BCM Body of Knowledge (or what is known as BoK) which you can easily make reference to via our BCMpedia website. Don't forget to pay the application fee before submitting your completed forms.

What Are the Pre-requisites to Obtain Each Certification?

• You are required to attend and complete the DRP-200: IT DR Planner;
• Pass the Qualifying DRCP e-examination 

DRP-300: IT DR Implementer

• Attend and Complete the  DRP-300: IT DR Implementer course

• Pass the Qualifying DRCS examination;

• Have at least one year of disaster recovery (DR) or Business Continuity Management (BCM) professional experience;

• Be able to describe the implementation and your role in at least 3 BCM or CC related Body of Knowledge (BoK)

• Send in the SGD 75 DRCS Certification Application Processing Fees

Disaster Recovery Certified Expert (DRCE) 

• Attend and Complete the  DRP-400: IT DR Manager or

• DRP-5000: IT DR Expert Implementer course.

• Pass the Qualifying CCCE examination;

• Have at least three years of Dsaster Recovery (DR) and/or Business Continuity Management (BCM) professional experience;

• Be able to describe your implementation and role in at least 5 of the BCM Body of Knowledge (BoK).

• Send in the SGD 150 DRCE Certification Application Processing Fees

Submitting the Application Form

• Upon passing your qualifying examination, you will receive an email from our Certification Team that includes a Certification Application form and a Checklist.
• Please ensure to complete the Certification Application form in an editable MS Word document.
  Note: If Application From is sent via PDF, we shall request you to resend as an editable MS Word document as we DO NOT accept PDF format
• Submit your completed Certification Application and Checklist forms to certification@bcm-institute.org.  It is important for you to ensure that the Application Form is signed and dated.
• Make sure the Certification Application Processing Fee has been paid before submitting.

How Long Would It Take for Me to Gain My Certification?

Well, your application form will be submitted to our Reviewer Board Committee which would then assess your form and if once they are satisfied with all the information and that you've met the conditions set, they would then award you with the relevant certification. Please understand that certifications are then valid for 1 year after which yearly renewals are needed to ensure the validity of the certification.

• 4 weeks for DRCS
• 6 weeks for DRCE

During the application review process, the Certification Review Committee decides whether the Application is:

• Approved (application, experience and education meet requirements)
• Returned for re submission (an element of the application is missing or does not meet minimum standards for level and may be resubmitted for a lower level) OR
• Rejected (applicant does not meet minimum requirements for level)

How to Know that You Have Been Awarded?

• Successful applicant will receive the e-Certification award from BCM Institute via email.
• The validity of BCM Institute Certification is 1 Year from the date of issue of certificate.
• DRCP Candidates shall receive their E-Certificates within 7 working days from the day they passed their qualifying examination.

Renewal of Certification

Many people came back to us and asks why do we need to renew it on a yearly basis? Why can't we renew it whenever we can?  In order to maintain your currency of your certification, the institute keep an list of active certified professionals as they are often being asked from existing and new employers. 

Lastly, if you would like to continue to know more about your IT Disaster Recovery journey, click "Building Your IT Disaster Recovery And Resiliency Management Program"