Recovery Point and Time Objectives Quiz

Quiz covering Backup and Recovery

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1. 1

   Which term describes the maximum tolerable period in which data might be lost from an IT service due to a major incident?

2. 2

   Your company performs full backups every night at 2:00 AM. If a database failure occurs at 10:00 AM, what is the RPO of the current backup strategy?

3. 3

   If a business requires that all critical systems be fully operational within 4 hours of a disaster, which metric are they defining?

4. 4

   When designing a disaster recovery plan, why might a company choose an RPO of near-zero for a transaction-heavy database?

5. 5

   A company has an RTO of 2 hours and an RPO of 1 hour. A server fails at 12:00 PM. The last backup was at 11:30 AM. Restoration begins at 12:15 PM and finishes at 1:45 PM. Did the company meet its objectives?