Which of the following is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process
must be restored after a disaster in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a
break in business continuity?

A.
RTO

B.
RTA

C.
RPO

D.
RCO

Explanation:
The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the duration of time and a service level
within which a business process must be restored after a disaster or disruption in order to avoid
unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity. It includes the time for
trying to fix the problem without a recovery, the recovery itself, tests and the communication to the
users. Decision time for user representative is not included. The business continuity timeline
usually runs parallel with an incident management timeline and may start at the same, or different,
points. In accepted business continuity planning methodology, the RTO is established during the
Business Impact Analysis (BIA) by the owner of a process (usually in conjunction with the
Business Continuity planner). The RTOs are then presented to senior management for
acceptance. The RTO attaches to the business process and not the resources required to support
exercise, actual event, or predetermined based on recovery methodology the technology support
team develops. This is the time frame the technology support takes to deliver the recovered
is used in Business Continuity Planning in addition to Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and
Recovery Time Objective (RTO). It applies data consistency objectives to Continuous Data
acceptable amount of data loss measured in time. It is the point in time to which data must be
recovered as defined by the organization. The RPO 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.