Business Analysis Impact 5.2

Question 1

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Answer 1

• How quickly an organization can get their system back up and running back to particular level of service.

Question 2

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Answer 2

• How much data is acceptable to lose and far back the time frame should go back to recover.
• An organization must determine how far back the data goes.

Question 3

Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)

Answer 3

• Average time required to fix an issue.
• Includes time to spend diagnosing the problem.
• An important metric for determining the cost and time for any unplanned outages.

Question 4

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

Answer 4

• Estimated time a system will run before there is another outage.
• Use to determine how risky it is to use a particular piece of equipment.

Question 5

Rough Estimation of MTBF

Answer 5

• Total uptime / number of breakdowns.
• Allows an organization to make predictions of issues.