ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
During a disaster recovery test, an organization uses a warm site. The site has partially configured servers and network infrastructure but lacks recent data. The recovery team expects to have the system operational within 2 days. Which recovery metric is most directly addressed by the warm site's capabilities?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
A warm site typically has hardware and partial configuration, allowing recovery in days. This directly impacts the recovery time objective (RTO), which is the target time for restoring systems and data.
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 Point Objective (RPO)
Why it's wrong here
RPO concerns data loss, not the time to restore systems.
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Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Why this is correct
RTO is the targeted time to restore operations; a warm site with 2-day recovery aligns with an RTO of days.
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Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
Why it's wrong here
MTD is the total downtime a business can tolerate, but the warm site capability directly determines RTO.
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Work Recovery Time (WRT)
Why it's wrong here
WRT is the time after systems are restored to return to normal operations, not the initial recovery.
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Network Security Foundations
Key term
Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery is a set of policies, procedures, and tools that help an organization restore critical IT systems and data after a disruptive event.
Key term
RTO
Recovery Time Objective is the maximum acceptable time to restore a system or data after a disaster, defining how quickly normal operations must resume.
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