BIA (Business Impact Analysis) - Terminology

Question 1

RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

Answer 1

The acceptable amount of data that can not be recovered.

Question 2

MTD (Maximum Tolerable Downtime)

Answer 2

MTD ≥ RTO (recovery time objective) + WRT (work recovery time)

The time to rebuild the system and configure it for reinsertion into production must be less than or equal to our MTD.