What Does the Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) Determine

question 108

Multiple Choice

What does the Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) determine?

• A) The estimated period of time a business critical database can remain down before customers are affected.
• B) The fixed length of time a company can endure a disaster without any Disaster Recovery (DR) planning
• C) The estimated period of time a business can remain interrupted beyond which it risks never recovering
• D) The fixed length of time in a DR process before redundant systems are engaged

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