ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
An organization's BIA determines that the payroll system has a Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) of 4 hours. The current recovery plan has an RTO of 2 hours and an RPO of 1 hour. What is the maximum Work Recovery Time (WRT) allowed to meet the MTD?
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2 hours
MTD = RTO + WRT. Given MTD=4, RTO=2, so WRT ≤ 2 hours.
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2 hours
Why this is correct
MTD = RTO + WRT → 4 = 2 + WRT → WRT = 2 hours.
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3 hours
Why it's wrong here
That would exceed MTD.
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4 hours
Why it's wrong here
That would exceed MTD.
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1 hour
Why it's wrong here
WRT must be 2 hours or less to meet MTD.
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