What Would You Do? Disaster Recovery Tabletop Exercise

All organizations experience unexpected and unwanted disruptions to their day-to-day operations. While it is impossible to predict when and what sort of emergency will occur, it is possible to prepare to respond in advance. Only by regularly practicing an institutional response to a simulated disaster can organizations gain confidence that their response plans are sound. This disaster recovery tabletop exercise, based on an exercise developed by Brandeis University, provides a brief introduction to the processes and procedures that would generally be used during a real crisis. The goal of this exercise is to introduce participants to such exercises and issues that may potentially interfere with response and recovery during an actual emergency.

OUTCOMES: Participate in a disaster recovery tabletop exercise * Understand how to conduct a tabletop exercise on your own campus * Identify obstacles to effective contingency plan response