A manufacturing firm has documented a recovery point objective (RPO) of 2 hours for its network-attached CAD file share. The data-protection plan currently:
takes a differential snapshot at 00:00 and 12:00, and
replicates changed blocks to an off-site array every 30 minutes (at :00 and :30 past the hour).
On Tuesday the primary volume fails at 14:15.
Which statement BEST describes whether the documented RPO was achieved?
The RPO was satisfied because the last 14:00 replication limits potential data loss to about 15 minutes.
The RPO was satisfied because the 12:00 differential snapshot is within two hours.
The RPO was NOT satisfied because the most recent usable copy is the 12:00 snapshot, resulting in over two hours of lost data.
The RPO was NOT satisfied because the two-hour target refers to restoration time, and failover will exceed it.
Block-level replication runs every 30 minutes, so the most recent off-site copy was created at 14:00-only 15 minutes before the failure. Losing 15 minutes of work is well inside the 2-hour RPO, so the objective is met. Relying on the 12:00 snapshot would have lost more than two hours of data, and the 2-hour target applies to data-loss tolerance, not the time it takes to restore service (which is covered by the RTO).
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