Timeframe requirement the sales department has given for downtime is described by which metric?

• A. Recovery Point Objective
• B. Mean Time To Repair
• C. Recovery Time Objective
• D. High Availability

Answer: (C)

The question tests how long a business can tolerate downtime after an outage. This is described by the Recovery Time Objective. RTO is the maximum amount of time allowed to restore systems and resume critical processes, so it directly reflects the timeframe the sales department can tolerate for downtime.

Recovery Time Objective differs from Recovery Point Objective, which is about how much data loss is acceptable (not the restoration time). It also isn’t the same as Mean Time To Repair, which measures how long it takes to fix a failed component, not the overall time to restore service. High Availability describes designing systems to minimize downtime but doesn’t specify a specific downtime window.