Recovery Point and Time Objectives Quiz

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

Quiz covering Backup and Recovery

What you'll be asked

  1. Which term describes the maximum tolerable period in which data might be lost from an IT service due to a major incident?
  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. If a business requires that all critical systems be fully operational within 4 hours of a disaster, which metric are they defining?
  4. When designing a disaster recovery plan, why might a company choose an RPO of near-zero for a transaction-heavy database?
  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?

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