Fill in the blank with the appropriate term. ________________ is the process, policies, and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an…

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Options

• AWarm site
• BCold site
• CHot site
• DOff site

• A
  7% (4)
• B
  89% (54)
• C
  3% (2)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Option B (Cold site) is correct because a cold site is a backup facility that provides only the basic infrastructure - power, cooling, and connectivity - but contains no pre-installed equipment or data, making it the most minimal and least ready form of disaster recovery site. A warm site falls between cold and hot - it has some pre-installed hardware and may have periodic data backups, but still requires configuration time before it's fully operational, so it doesn't match a bare-minimum setup. A hot site is essentially a mirror of the primary facility, fully equipped and operational with near-real-time data replication, enabling near-immediate failover - the opposite of cold. Off site is a general term referring to any location separate from the primary facility (including backups or archives), not a specific tier of disaster recovery readiness.

Memory tip: Think temperature = readiness. Cold = frozen/not ready (bring your own equipment), Warm = thawing/partially ready, Hot = fully running. The colder the site, the cheaper it is but the longer it takes to recover.

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