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When performing a business impact analysis (BIA), it is the responsibility of the business continuity coordinator to determine the initial recovery time objective (RTO). The RTO is a critical component of the BIA and should be determined in cooperation with the information owners. The RTO should reflect the maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPD) and should be used to guide the development of the recovery strategy.

The greatest inherent risk when performing a disaster recovery plan (DRP) test is disruption to the production environment. A DRP test involves simulating a disaster scenario to ensure that the organization's plans are effective and that it is able to recover from an incident. However, this involves running tests on the production environment, which has the potential to disrupt the normal operations of the organization. This inherent risk can be mitigated by running tests on a non-production environment or by running tests at times when disruption will be minimized.