An organization classifies a critical process as having an MTD of 4 hours. Which value MUST be less than that?
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Why "RTO" is the right answer
Maximum Tolerable Downtime is the absolute ceiling. RTO (Recovery Time Objective) must be less than MTD or the recovery target itself fails the business. RPO is the data-loss tolerance.
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