In disaster recovery planning, what is the recovery point objective?
A.
The point to which application data must be recovered to resume business operations
B.
The maximum elapsed time required to complete recovery of application data
C.
The point to which application data must be recovered to resume system operations
D.
The point to which information system must be operational at an alternate site
Explanation:
The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the point in time to which you must recover data as defined by your organization. This is generally a definition of what an organization determines is an “acceptable loss” in a disaster situation. If the RPO of a company is 2 hours and the time it takes to get the data
back into production is 5 hours, the RPO is still 2 hours. Based on this RPO the
data must be restored to within 2 hours of the disaster.
A recovery point objective, or “RPO”, is defined by business continuity planning. It is the maximum targeted period in which data might be lost from an IT service due to a major incident.