An application has an SLA whereby the service must be restored in 4 hours, with 15-minute data
loss. Which of the following statements is valid?

A.
The platform must provide the application with RTO of 15 minutes and RPO of 4 hours.

B.
The platform must provide the application with RTO of 4 hours and RPO of 15 minutes.

Explanation:

The recovery time objective (RTO)—also known as the return to operation—is the amount of timeit
takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the
point intime to which the system needs to be restored following a failure.
Chapter 3, RTO, RPO, and All That Stuff?