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ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
A company's critical database must be recovered within 4 hours after a disaster, and they can tolerate losing up to 1 hour of data. During a disaster, after the systems are restored, it takes an additional 30 minutes to verify data integrity and resume normal operations. Which metric is represented by the 4-hour requirement?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the maximum acceptable time to restore systems and data after a disaster.
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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Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
Why it's wrong here
MTD is the total downtime the business can endure, which may be longer than RTO.
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Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Why this is correct
RTO is the maximum time allowed to restore systems and data.
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Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Why it's wrong here
RPO defines acceptable data loss, not recovery time.
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Work Recovery Time (WRT)
Why it's wrong here
WRT is the additional time after system restoration to return to normal operations.
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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.
Key term
Recovery
Recovery is the process of restoring systems, data, and operations after a security incident, failure, or disaster to return to normal functioning.
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