In disaster recovery planning, what do RPO and RTO stand for?

• A. Recovery Point Outline and Recovery Time Objective
• B. Resource Prioritization Objective and Recovery Time Optimization
• C. Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective
• D. Redundancy Plan Order and Time-based Recovery

Answer: (C)

Understanding how much data you can lose and how quickly you must recover is being tested. RPO stands for Recovery Point Objective, which defines the maximum amount of data loss that is acceptable, typically expressed as a time window since the last backup. RTO stands for Recovery Time Objective, which defines how quickly systems must be restored after a disruption. These metrics shape disaster recovery planning: the RPO guides how often data is backed up or replicated, and the RTO drives the required speed and methods for bringing systems back online, such as failover, replication, or rapid restoration. For example, an RPO of 15 minutes means you need backups or replicated data at least every 15 minutes. An RTO of 2 hours means you must be able to restore operations within two hours of an outage. The other options use terms that aren’t standard in DR planning, so they don’t describe the established concepts. The pair you’re looking for is Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective.