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Recovery Point Objective

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Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is another key metric that is used in business continuity and disaster recovery planning. RPO determines the maximum amount of data loss that an organization can tolerate in the event of a disaster or disruption. It helps organizations decide upon the appropriate freq…

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CompTIA Security+ - Recovery Point Objective Example Questions

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Question 1

A hospital experienced a ransomware attack and needs to restore their patient database. Their RPO is 8 hours, and they have incremental backups daily at 1 AM and 9 AM. The attack occurred at 11 AM. What recovery steps should they take?

Correct Answer: Restore from the 1 AM backup, and apply the 9 AM incremental backup

To minimize data loss and meet the RPO goal, the hospital should restore from the most recent viable backup before the attack and then apply any subsequent incremental backups. In this case, restore from the 1 AM backup and apply the 9 AM incremental backup.

Question 2

An e-commerce company determined they can only afford a maximum of 4 hours of data loss after experiencing an outage. To achieve this RPO, which backup method would be the most appropriate?

Correct Answer: Incremental backups every 4 hours

To meet the RPO goal of 4 hours maximum data loss, the company should implement incremental backups every 4 hours. This ensures that they will be able to recover data within the specified 4-hour window.

Question 3

A university's critical systems need to be restored within 2 hours in case of a disaster with an RPO of 12 hours. For backups, they use full backups taken daily at midnight and incremental backups taken every 4 hours. A system failure happens at 10 AM. What is the correct recovery procedure?

Correct Answer: Restore the full backup and then the 8 AM incremental backup

To meet the RPO of 12 hours, the university should restore the full backup from midnight and apply the most recent incremental backup (8 AM), ensuring that the systems are up to date within the specified time frame.

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