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A business owner accepts losing up to fifteen minutes of transactions in a disaster but insists service must return within four hours. Which two objectives has the owner stated, and to which does the fifteen minutes belong? Choose two.

  1. The four hours is the recovery time objective, a measure of tolerable unavailability.
  2. The fifteen minutes is the recovery time objective for the transaction store.
  3. The four hours is the maximum tolerable downtime for the business process.
  4. The fifteen minutes is the recovery point objective, a measure of tolerable data loss.
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Answer: D. The fifteen minutes is the recovery point objective, a measure of tolerable data loss.
A. The four hours is the recovery time objective, a measure of tolerable unavailability.

The recovery point objective is the point data can be restored to and measures tolerable data loss; the recovery time objective is how long a resource may remain unavailable.

Source: NIST SP 800-34 Rev. 1 (NIST) — SP 800-34 Rev. 1 > 3.2.1 Determine Business Processes and Recovery Criticality

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