A continuity plan states municipal systems must resume within 4 hours and lose no more than 15 minutes of data. Which pair correctly maps those targets?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
RTO is the stopwatch for how fast you must be back online; RPO is how much recent work you can afford to lose. Four hours to resume and fifteen minutes of data loss map cleanly to RTO and RPO—not the other way around. Mixing them up builds the wrong backup and failover design.
Full Explanation
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) defines the maximum acceptable downtime before services must be restored, while Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines the maximum acceptable data-loss window. A 4-hour resume target is an RTO, and a 15-minute data-loss limit is an RPO. Confusing the two leads to misaligned replication frequency and failover procedures.