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ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
An organization needs to prioritize recovery of systems after a disaster. Which metric directly indicates the maximum acceptable outage time for a business function?
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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Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) is the maximum time a business function can be unavailable before causing unacceptable harm.
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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Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Why it's wrong here
RTO is the target recovery time, not the maximum acceptable.
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Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
Why this is correct
MTD is the maximum acceptable outage time.
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Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Why it's wrong here
RPO indicates acceptable data loss, not outage time.
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Work Recovery Time (WRT)
Why it's wrong here
WRT is the time to return to normal operations after systems are restored.
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
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.
Key term
Maximum tolerable downtime
Maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) is the total amount of time a business process or system can be unavailable before causing irreparable harm to the organization.
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