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Difficulty: EasyBusiness Impact Analysis and Business Continuity Management

An organization specifies that its primary customer database must be fully restored and operational within four hours following an unexpected system outage to prevent severe financial impact. Which of the following business continuity metrics does this duration represent?

  1. Recovery Time Objective (RTO)Answer
  2. B
    Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
  3. C
    Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
  4. D
    Corrective Control

Answer

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the maximum acceptable duration of time that a system or process can be down after a disaster or disruption before intolerable operational or financial impact occurs. The four-hour restoration window explicitly defines RTO.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the key requirement in the scenario
The requirement specifies a maximum allowable timeframe (four hours) for restoring system functionality following an outage.
Determining whether the metric targets downtime duration or data loss duration isolates the correct BIA metric.
2
Map the requirement to the corresponding Business Impact Analysis (BIA) metric
The metric defining maximum acceptable system recovery time is the Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
RTO focuses on service restoration and operational uptime thresholds.

Key Concept

Recovery Time Objective (RTO) vs. Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
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Business Impact Analysis and Business Continuity Management

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