Which of the following best describes the term "RPO"?

Question

Options

• AThe point at which the data is in a consistent state at both the primary and the backup sites.
• BThe point at which the business declares a disaster.
• CThe point at which GDPS software begins automatic failover.
• DThe point at which the age of data at the backup site is acceptable.

• B
  6% (1)
• C
  6% (1)
• D
  88% (15)

Explanation

RPO (Recovery Point Objective) defines the maximum acceptable age of data that can be recovered from a backup after a disaster - in other words, how much data loss (measured in time) the business can tolerate. Option D is correct because RPO is fundamentally about the age of data at the backup site, not about any process, declaration, or consistency check.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A describes synchronization or data consistency, which relates more to replication state - not to what RPO defines.
• B describes a business or management decision point, which is closer to a crisis management concept, not a data recovery metric.
• C describes a specific software action (GDPS automatic failover), which is an RTO-related mechanism (how fast recovery happens), not RPO.

Memory tip: Think of RPO as "how old can my data be and I'm still okay?" - the P stands for Point (in time), and if your backups run every 4 hours, your RPO is 4 hours of potential data loss. RPO = data age tolerance; RTO = recovery time tolerance.

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