RTO and RPO Planning Quiz

5 questions Pass: 70% +25 pts (50 with Pro)

Quiz covering Reliable and Resilient Architectures

What you'll be asked

  1. Which term defines the maximum tolerable period in which data might be lost from an IT service due to a major incident?
  2. An organization experiences a database failure. The last successful backup was at 2:00 AM, and the failure occurred at 8:00 AM. If the business requires data loss to be no more than 4 hours, what is the status of the RPO?
  3. You are designing a disaster recovery strategy for a mission-critical application. Which approach provides the lowest RTO and RPO?
  4. When calculating the budget for disaster recovery, why is it generally more expensive to achieve an RPO of near-zero compared to an RPO of 24 hours?
  5. A company has a legacy application that takes 4 hours to boot, configure, and verify after a failure. If the business requirement for RTO is 2 hours, what architectural change is necessary?

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