VMware vSAN Administrator (2025) — Question 32

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution for a customer. During the discovery phase, the customer outlined the following availability requirements:
All business-critical applications and workloads must adhere to a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 2 business hours.
The infrastructure components supporting the VCF solution must comply with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 8 business hours.
Based on this context, what does the RTO metric represent?

Answer options

• A. The minimum acceptable duration required to recover a service to an operational state
• B. The maximum allowable time within which a system or service must be restored to a usable state
• C. The maximum amount of data loss that is considered acceptable during a failure
• D. The minimum volume of data loss tolerated in the event of a disruption

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer, B, indicates the maximum time allowed for restoring a system to a functional state after a disruption, aligning with the customer's RTO requirement. Option A incorrectly suggests a minimum time, while C and D focus on data loss rather than recovery time, making them irrelevant to the RTO metric.