ISC Contingency Management Practice Question
You are auditing a third-party disaster recovery service provider. Which metric provides the most accurate evidence that the provider can meet your organization's required recovery point for a database cluster?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Replication Lag monitoring logs showing synchronization latency.
RPO is defined by data loss tolerance, which is best measured by the age of the last successful backup or replication point.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) reports from previous tests.
Why it's wrong here
MTTR relates to RTO, not data loss (RPO).
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Service Level Agreement (SLA) uptime percentages.
Why it's wrong here
Uptime is a availability metric, not a data integrity/recovery point metric.
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Replication Lag monitoring logs showing synchronization latency.
Why this is correct
Replication lag directly indicates the age of the data at the secondary site, which is the definition of RPO.
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Annual penetration test results.
Why it's wrong here
Security testing does not validate recovery point capabilities.
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official (ISC)² exam blueprint
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