Question

A financial services company is conducting a business impact analysis for its transaction database. Management states that the business can tolerate losing no more than 15 minutes of transaction data if a failure occurs. Which BIA metric does this 15-minute requirement define, and what should it drive?

Accepted Answer

Recovery Point Objective (RPO), which should drive the frequency of data backups or replication

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Recovery Time Objective (RTO), which should drive how quickly systems must be restored to operation

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Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), which should drive the staffing of the repair team

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Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), which should drive the hardware replacement schedule