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What does maximum tolerable downtime represent?

  1. The point to which data can be restored after an outage
  2. The total amount of outage time the system owner will accept for a business process, taking every impact into account
  3. The longest a system resource may be unavailable before other resources are affected
  4. The time required to relocate to an alternate site
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Answer: B. The total amount of outage time the system owner will accept for a business process, taking every impact into account

SP 800-34r1 defines maximum tolerable downtime as the total amount of time the system owner or authorising official is willing to accept for a process outage or disruption, including all impact considerations.

Source: NIST SP 800-34 Rev. 1 (NIST) — Sec. 3.2.1 Determine Business Processes and Recovery Criticality

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