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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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Additive Strategy

A decision-making process in which alternatives are evaluated by summing up their attributes, giving more weighted attributes higher importance.

Elimination

The process of removing or getting rid of something, often used in biological contexts to refer to the expulsion of waste from the body.

Elimination By Aspects

A decision-making process where options are eliminated based on specific criteria until one option remains.