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CCSP · Question #880
In disaster recovery planning, what does RTO (Recovery Time Objective) represent?
The correct answer is A. Maximum tolerable time to restore service after an outage. RTO is the target time within which systems must be back online. (RPO, not asked here, is how much data loss is acceptable).
Submitted by weili_xi· Apr 18, 2026Cloud Security Operations
Question
In disaster recovery planning, what does RTO (Recovery Time Objective) represent?
Options
- AMaximum tolerable time to restore service after an outage
- BMaximum tolerable data loss in time (like the last backup point)
- CRequired transfer speed for backups
- DRegulatory threshold for downtime
How the community answered
(61 responses)- A87% (53)
- B8% (5)
- C2% (1)
- D3% (2)
Explanation
RTO is the target time within which systems must be back online. (RPO, not asked here, is how much data loss is acceptable).
Topics
#RTO#Disaster Recovery Planning#Business Continuity#Recovery Time Objective
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