Which of the following is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break

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Options

• ARCO
• BRTO
• CRPO
• DRTA

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  91% (30)
• D
  6% (2)

Explanation

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the defined duration within which a business process must be restored following a disruption - it sets the maximum tolerable downtime before consequences become unacceptable. It is a forward-looking service level that drives how quickly IT and operations teams must act.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. RCO (Recovery Consistency Objective) - relates to data consistency across systems after recovery, not the time window for restoring operations.
• C. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) - addresses data loss tolerance, specifically how far back in time a recovery point can be (e.g., "we can afford to lose up to 4 hours of data"), not the time to restore the process itself.
• D. RTA (Recovery Time Actual) - this is not a standard BCDR (Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery) term; it occasionally refers to the actual time taken to recover, which is a post-event measurement, not a planning objective.

Memory tip: Think of the T in RTO as Time to get back (restoration time), and the P in RPO as Point in time of your last good data. RTO = "How fast must we be running again?" RPO = "How much data can we afford to lose?"

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