Which of the following describes the acceptable amount of data loss measured in time?

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• ARecovery Consistency Objective (RCO)
• BRecovery Time Objective (RTO)
• CRecovery Point Objective (RPO)
• DRecovery Time Actual (RTA)

• A
  3% (1)
• C
  94% (32)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time - for example, "we can tolerate losing up to 4 hours of data." It answers the question: how far back in time can we afford to restore from a backup?

• RTO (B) measures how long it takes to restore service after an outage (downtime tolerance), not data loss - it's about time-to-recovery, not data-loss tolerance.
• RCO (A) refers to consistency of data across systems after recovery; it's about data integrity, not volume of loss in time.
• RTA (D) is the actual measured time it took to recover after an incident - a post-event metric, not a planning target.

Memory tip: Think of RPO as the "Past" objective - it looks backward in time to ask "how much past data can we lose?" while RTO looks forward ("how quickly do we get back up?"). RPO = data loss in time, RTO = downtime in time.

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