What do RPO and RTO stand for in disaster recovery planning?

• A. Recovery Time Objective
• B. Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective
• C. Recovery Point Objective
• D. Recovery Process Objective

Answer: (B)

In disaster recovery planning, two measures describe how much disruption you can tolerate: Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective. Recovery Point Objective defines the maximum age of data that may be lost due to an incident, which drives how often you back up and replicate data. Recovery Time Objective defines the maximum acceptable downtime before services must be restored, guiding your recovery strategies and priorities for failover. The combination of these two terms—Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective—is the standard way to express data loss tolerance and downtime tolerance, so this option is the correct one. The other choices either omit one of the terms or propose a non-standard phrase.