The following requirements were identified in an architecture workshop for a virtual infrastructure design project. REQ001: All virtual machines must satisfy the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of…

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• ASimulate or invoke an outage of the primary datacenter. All virtual machines must be restored
• BSimulate or invoke an outage of the primary datacenter. All virtual machines must not lose more
• CSimulate or invoke an outage of the primary datacenter. All virtual machines must not lose more
• DSimulate or invoke an outage of the primary datacenter. All virtual machines must be restored

• A
  82% (31)
• B
  11% (4)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

REQ001 specifies an RPO of 15 minutes or less, meaning the maximum data loss in a DR scenario is 15 minutes. REQ002 demands 99.999% availability, but test cases focus on DR validation, so RPO is primary here. Option C directly tests RPO: if VMs lose no more than 15 minutes of data, the requirement is met, aligning with vSphere Replication or vSAN stretched clusters in VCF 5.2, which can achieve such RPOs. Option A tests restoration within 15 minutes, which, while related to Recovery Time Objective (RTO), also implies minimal data loss if achieved, indirectly validating RPO in a failover context. Option B (1 hour of data loss) exceeds the 15-minute RPO, failing REQ001. Option D (1-hour restoration) tests RTO, not RPO, and isn't tied to data loss limits. VCF DR solutions emphasize these metrics, making A and C the precise

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