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ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
A company's Business Impact Analysis (BIA) determines that its online payment system can tolerate a maximum of 2 hours of downtime. The IT team estimates that restoring the system from backups will take 1 hour, and the team needs another 30 minutes to verify data integrity and resume normal operations. Which metric does the 30-minute verification period represent?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Work Recovery Time (WRT)
Work Recovery Time (WRT) is the time needed after systems are restored to return to normal operations, distinct from RTO which is the time to restore functionality.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Why it's wrong here
RPO refers to acceptable data loss, not time after restore.
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Work Recovery Time (WRT)
Why this is correct
WRT is the additional time after system restoration to return to normal operations.
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Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
Why it's wrong here
MTD is the total downtime the business can endure, not a component of recovery.
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Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Why it's wrong here
RTO is the total time to recover, including restoration and verification.
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Security Operations Basics
Key term
Business Continuity Planning
Business Continuity Planning is the process of creating a strategy to keep an organization's essential functions running during and after a major disruption.
Key term
Integrity
Integrity is the assurance that data has not been altered or tampered with in an unauthorized way, preserving its accuracy and consistency from source to destination.
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