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13.6.2 Key points/learning outcomes |
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Describe the various
potential threats to information systems. Factors could include;
physical security, document security, personnel security, hardware
security, communications security, software security.
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Understand the concept of
risk analysis.
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Understand the commercial
need to ensure that an information system is protected from threat.
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Describe a range of
contingency plans to recover from disasters and relate these to
identified threats.
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Describe the criteria used to
select a contingency plan appropriate to the scale of an organisation
and installation.
See the
books page for more
details about the titles listed below
McWeeney - pages 27 -30
Mott & Leeming -
Doyle - pages 214- 217
Heathcote
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13.6.2 Practice questions |
AQA past papers
Past papers. Not as useful as the Psionica database AQA shamefully closed
but...
Practice questions
Past paper practice questions for 13.6 (.rtf file - opens in Word/Writer)
suitable for revision/homework etc. etc.
NOTE: It's the same file on all the 13.6.X pages!!! This is a VERY big
document 'cos 13.6 often appears as part of the essay question.
Past paper answers
Answers to the questions above. Password protected .doc file. Sorry but
the password is only available to teachers. 23 pages long!!!!!
Older Exam Papers
Past papers (pre 2000) not included on the official AQA site from
Colchester VI Form College. These still contain some relevant questions
for this topic. Look for IT04/ICT4 papers. I think this is dead?
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Links to general online
resources for 13.6.2. I'd recommend right clicking links/icons and "Save
Target As..." for anything other than web pages (see key below)
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Risk
Analysis Techniques |
Very detailed but ultimately very long
description of risk analysis techniques. Probably most useful to
teachers planning lessons on this topic for the first time.
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Disaster Recovery |
PowerPoint presentation from Chris Brown
covers the reasons for and contents of contingency plans. Includes a
couple of discussion questions at the end.
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Threats to IT Systems |
Little summary table thing which covers the
basic threats to IT systems. very useful document for last minute
revision.
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Disaster Planning |
Short PowerPoint based on chapter 46 of the
Heathcote book. Covers this topic rather well IMNSHO.
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Risk Analysis and Contingency
Planning |
Short (2 page) document explaining the basic
concepts of risk and contingency planning.
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Set of useful discussion question from
Gerard Horsfield at B & P College. A very useful resource for
end-of-topic revision.
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Computer Disasters |
Interesting and useful page from the KJS
covers various threats to ICT (amongst other things) and the potential
consequences of disasters.
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How
to Write a Disaster Recovery Plan |
What it says in the title! Guidance for FE
Colleges on how to write a DRP. Gives a very good insight into how many
of the concepts of this topic are applied in the real world (TM).
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Disaster Recovery Plans |
Only slides 18-21 of this monster PowerPoint
presentation are relevant to this topic it's well worth downloading as
it covers so many other topics for ICT4 and ICT5. FatMax recommended.
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Backup and Recovery |
Some useful facts and figures from the
DTI/PWC. Did you know that only 8% of organisations have *actually*
tested their DRPs? Me neither! It might make a nice case study?
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Legal Aspects |
Summary notes and questions from North
Chadderton High School. The specific stuff about risk analysis and
disaster recovery management is on page 3 - 8.
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News Stories |
Various topic related news stories collected
by Teach-ICT.
An excellent resource for planning topical lessons and/or useful
examples to illustrate answers.
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Legal
Aspects 2 |
From the excellent
ict-teacher this ppt covers Disaster Recovery and Corporate IT
Security Policies. Very, very informative and very, very dull. I'm not
entirely sure what colour you'd call it???
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Revision Questions |
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Couple of older past paper questions on
legislation suitable for homeworks, revision, blah de blah de blah. |
Key to resources:
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