High availability Operations Playbook: Basics
RCCE students will learn high availability architecture design and implementation including redundancy patterns, failover mechanisms, load balancing, geographic distribution, and availability monitoring. RCCE students will learn to design high availability architectures that meet organizational uptime requirements, implement redundancy at network, server, storage, and application layers, configure automatic failover and health check mechanisms, deploy load balancers for traffic distribution and resilience, design geographically distributed architectures for disaster tolerance, test failover procedures to validate recovery capabilities, and monitor availability metrics and alert on degradation before outages impact business operations. This operations-focused course delivers production-ready playbooks, checklists, and standard operating procedures. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn to build repeatable day-to-day operational workflows that ensure consistency and quality. Students receive templates and frameworks they can customize and deploy immediately in their security operations, reducing time to operational effectiveness.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing High availability Operations Playbook: Basics
- Execute hands-on tasks for high availability operations playbook
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn — covering Operational Deliverables.
- Execute hands-on tasks for three nines
- Execute hands-on tasks for high availability — covering Minimizes downtime, Automatic failover.
- Execute hands-on tasks for disaster recovery — covering Restores after major.
- Execute hands-on tasks for fault tolerance — covering Zero downtime during.
- Measure attack surface reduction and program effectiveness
- Execute hands-on tasks for slo vs sli vs sla — covering SLI: measured metric (latency, errors).
- Execute hands-on tasks for single dns server — covering Human SPOFs.
- Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts, including all infrastructure components end-to-end.
| Module 01 | High Availability Operations Playbook |
| Module 02 | Course Overview |
| Module 03 | What You Will Learn |
| Module 04 | Three Nines |
| Module 05 | High Availability |
| Module 06 | Disaster Recovery |
| Module 07 | Fault Tolerance |
| Module 08 | Availability Metrics Deep Dive |
| Module 09 | Automation is the primary lever for MTTR reduction |
| Module 10 | SLO vs SLI vs SLA |
| Module 11 | Single DNS server |
| Module 12 | OPERATIONAL ARTIFACT: SPOF AUDIT CHECKLIST |
| Module 13 | Redundancy Patterns Overview |
| Module 14 | Active-Active Architecture |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice high availability operations playbook: basics by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for high availability operations playbook
- Lab 2: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for three nines
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for high availability
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for High availability Operations Playbook: Basics, verifiable through the Rocheston certification portal.
- Full access to all course materials and slide decks
- Hands-on lab access on Rocheston Rose X OS environment
- Access to Rocheston CyberNotes
- Access to Rocheston Zelfire — EDR/XDR SIEM platform
- Access to Rocheston Raven — online cyber range exercise platform
- Access to Rocheston Vulnerability Vines AI