EMC Proven Professional – RecoverPoint Specialist — Question 10

A customer has two data centers (Site A and Site B).There is an Isilon cluster in each data center and they use SyncIQ to replicate data between the two data centers.
You have reviewed their disaster recovery plan and found the following:
✑ The policies specify that SyncIQ runs a replication job every 3 hours and that the job finishes within 1 hour.
✑ Three additional hours will be needed to get servers and the network redirected to work from Site B.
What is the Recovery Point Objective in this plan?

Answer options

• A. 2 Hours
• B. 3 Hours
• C. 4 Hours
• D. 5 Hours

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time. In this case, since the SyncIQ job runs every 3 hours and takes 1 hour to finish, this means data could be at most 3 hours old at the time of a failure. Adding the 3 additional hours needed to redirect servers results in an RPO of 4 hours. The other options do not account for the total time required for both replication and redirection.