Exam SY0-601 topic 1 question 425 discussion

The point in time when an organization will recover data in the event of an outage is identified by the Recovery Point Objective (RPO). RPO is a metric that represents the maximum amount of data loss that an organization is willing to accept in the event of an outage. It specifies the point in time to which an organization must recover its data in order to resume business operations with acceptable data loss. For example, if an organization's RPO is 4 hours, then in the event of an outage, the organization must be able to recover its data to a point no more than 4 hours prior to the outage. This means that any data created or modified within the last 4 hours may be lost in the event of an outage. Other metrics listed in the question are: Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE) is the expected monetary loss from a risk in a year. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is the average time between two failures of a system. Annualized Rate of Occurrence (ARO) is the estimated number of times a risk will occur in a year.

Best option is B, but it is not quite accurate. This is actually pointing to RTO (Recovery Time Objective): The term recovery time objective (RTO) is used to describe the target time that is set for the resumption of operations after an incident. This is a period of time that is defined by the business, based on the needs of the business. A shorter RTO results in higher costs because it requires greater coordination and resources. This term is commonly used in business continuity and disaster recovery operations. RPO, a totally different concept from RTO, is the time period representing the maximum period of acceptable data loss. The RPO defines the frequency of backup operations necessary to prevent unacceptable levels of data loss.

RTO defines the maximum time an organization can tolerate after an outage to return to action. RPO defines the maximum amount of data expressed in time an organization can tolerate to be lost after an outage. RPO defines how often we need to make backups. An RTO value of 1 hr is accomplished by making backups every hour or less. RPO defines the point in time when an organization must recover data in the event of an outage.

The answer is B. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) identifies the point in time to which an organization must recover data in the event of an outage.

The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) identifies the point in time when an organization will recover data in the event of an outage. It is the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time and represents the age of the files that must be recovered from backup storage for normal operations to resume if a computer, system, or network goes down as a result of a hardware, program, or communications failure.