What you will be able to do
Learning outcomes
- Test job scheduling and failure monitoring over financially significant batch processing
- Assess completeness and accuracy controls over interfaces and data transfers
- Test backup and restore against business recovery objectives, including ransomware
- Explain UK and EU operational resilience requirements and what auditors check
- Audit incident and problem management, including cloud and SaaS responsibilities
Part 1: Jobs and interfaces
Jobs that run without anyone watching · Did everything that left arrive, once and unchanged? · Testing jobs and interfaces
Part 2: Backup, recovery and resilience
What a good backup looks like now · A backup is only proven by a restore · RTO and RPO: set by the business, proven by IT · Regulators now expect resilience, not just recovery · Detect, fix, learn · Who does what in someone else's data centre
Part 3: Testing operations
Testing computer operations · A worked finding on backup failures · Six ways operations testing goes wrong
20-slide course deck
Every slide has full speaker notes, a worked audit finding, a knowledge check and current sources.
Participant workbook
Notes pages, a finding template, a 10-question knowledge check and a glossary.
Excel exercises
Find failed backups with no follow-up. Reconcile a payroll-to-ledger interface. Compare recovery capability with RTO and RPO. All data is fictional.
Pricing
Choose your pack
Learner Pack
£29 one-off
For self-study and auditors building their skills.
- Course deck (PDF, 20 slides)
- Participant workbook
- Excel exercise file
- Single-user licence
Trainer Licence
£149 one-off
For audit managers, trainers and consultancies.
- Everything in the Learner Pack
- Editable PowerPoint with full speaker notes
- Exercise answer key and model finding
- Licence to deliver the course to your own teams or clients
Secure checkout by Stripe. Files are emailed within one working day. Want all six courses? See the ITGC Complete bundle.