SK0-004 · Question #196
An administrator is updating the server infrastructure at a company's disaster recovery site. Currently, an enormous amount of effort is required by the administrator to replicate operations. Which…
The correct answer is A. Cold site. A cold site requires the greatest manual effort to bring online because it provides only basic physical space and power with no pre-configured hardware or replicated data.
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An administrator is updating the server infrastructure at a company's disaster recovery site. Currently, an enormous amount of effort is required by the administrator to replicate operations. Which of the following types of site is the administrator currently using?
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- ACold site
- BHot site
- CWarm site
- DReplication site
How the community answered
(65 responses)- A92% (60)
- B2% (1)
- C5% (3)
- D2% (1)
Why each option
A cold site requires the greatest manual effort to bring online because it provides only basic physical space and power with no pre-configured hardware or replicated data.
A cold site is a bare-minimum facility that lacks pre-installed equipment, configured systems, or replicated data, meaning the administrator must provision and configure everything from scratch during a disaster. This 'enormous amount of effort' to replicate operations is the defining characteristic of a cold site. It is the lowest-cost DR option but has the longest recovery time.
A hot site is fully operational with all systems running and data continuously mirrored, requiring minimal administrator effort to fail over.
A warm site has some pre-installed hardware and periodic data backups, requiring moderate - not enormous - effort to bring online.
'Replication site' is not a standard disaster recovery site classification.
Concept tested: Disaster recovery cold site characteristics
Source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-34r1.pdf
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