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SY0-301 · Question #54

Which of the following defines a business goal for system restoration and acceptable data loss?

The correct answer is C. RPO. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines how much data loss an organization can tolerate, expressed as a point in time to which systems must be restored after a disaster.

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Question

Which of the following defines a business goal for system restoration and acceptable data loss?

Options

  • AMTTR
  • BMTBF
  • CRPO
  • DWarm site

How the community answered

(42 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    90% (38)
  • D
    5% (2)

Why each option

The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines how much data loss an organization can tolerate, expressed as a point in time to which systems must be restored after a disaster.

AMTTR

MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) measures the average time required to restore a failed component or system, not acceptable data loss.

BMTBF

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) measures the average operational time between system failures, which is a reliability metric, not a recovery goal.

CRPOCorrect

RPO specifies the maximum acceptable age of data that must be recovered after an incident, effectively defining the business tolerance for data loss and the target restoration point. It is a core disaster recovery planning metric that drives decisions about backup frequency and replication strategies.

DWarm site

A warm site is a type of disaster recovery facility with partially pre-configured infrastructure, not a metric that defines restoration goals or data loss tolerance.

Concept tested: Recovery Point Objective (RPO) definition

Source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-34r1.pdf

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#RPO#recovery point objective#acceptable data loss#business continuity

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