Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) 2020 — Question 48

A company has the following requirements:
Mission-critical VMs: hourly replication to disaster recovery site, daily backups of these VMs should be available at the disaster recovery site when required, the mission critical applications need to be available within 20 minutes.
Business-important VMs: daily backups should be stored at the disaster recovery site. When required, the business-important applications need to be available within four hours.
Define the RPO and RTO for the company's disaster recovery site.

Answer options

• A. Mission-critical VMs: RPO = 60 minutes, RTO = one hour; business-important VMs: RPO = 60 minutes, RTO = four hours
• B. Mission-critical VMs: RPO = 24 hours, RTO = 20 minutes; business-important VMs: RPO = 24 hours, RTO = four hours
• C. Mission-critical VMs: RPO = 60 minutes, RTO = 20 minutes; business-important VMs: RPO = 24 hours, RTO = four hours
• D. Mission-critical VMs: RPO = 24 hours, RTO = four hours; business-important VMs: RPO = 24 hours, RTO = four hours

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because mission-critical VMs require an RPO of 60 minutes due to hourly replication and an RTO of 20 minutes as the applications need to be available quickly. In contrast, business-important VMs have a longer RPO of 24 hours for daily backups and an RTO of four hours for application availability.