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2V0-13.25 · Question #37

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution for a customer. During the discovery phase, the customer outlined the following availability requirements: - All business-critical…

The correct answer is A. The maximum allowable time within which a system or service must be restored to a usable state. RTO (Recovery Time Objective) measures the maximum downtime tolerated before a service must be restored. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) measures the maximum tolerable data loss. In this scenario: Business-critical workloads tolerate 2 hours of data loss (RPO). Infrastructure…

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Question

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution for a customer. During the discovery phase, the customer outlined the following availability requirements:

  • All business-critical applications and workloads must adhere to a

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 2 business hours.

  • The infrastructure components supporting the VCF solution must comply

with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 8 business hours. Based on this context, what does the RTO metric represent?

Options

  • AThe maximum allowable time within which a system or service must be restored to a usable state
  • BThe maximum amount of data loss that is considered acceptable during a failure
  • CThe minimum volume of data loss tolerated in the event of a disruption
  • DThe minimum acceptable duration required to recover a service to an operational state

How the community answered

(31 responses)
  • A
    87% (27)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    10% (3)

Explanation

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) measures the maximum downtime tolerated before a service must be restored. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) measures the maximum tolerable data loss. In this scenario: Business-critical workloads tolerate 2 hours of data loss (RPO). Infrastructure must be operational again within 8 hours (RTO). Thus, RTO = maximum allowable recovery time for service restoration.

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#RTO#RPO#disaster recovery concepts#availability metrics

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