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SK0-004 · Question #197

A technician has traveled to a company's alternate site to assess current operations of the network infrastructure. Following the assessment, the technician has informed management that everything…

The correct answer is C. Hot site. A hot site is fully operational with all applications running and data continuously mirrored, enabling near-immediate failover with no rebuild required.

Security and disaster recovery

Question

A technician has traveled to a company's alternate site to assess current operations of the network infrastructure. Following the assessment, the technician has informed management that everything is operational, with all applications and data mirrored. Which of the following types of site does the company have?

Options

  • AWarm site
  • BCold site
  • CHot site
  • DStandby site

How the community answered

(47 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    91% (43)
  • D
    4% (2)

Why each option

A hot site is fully operational with all applications running and data continuously mirrored, enabling near-immediate failover with no rebuild required.

AWarm site

A warm site has partial hardware and periodic backups but is not fully operational - applications and data are not continuously mirrored.

BCold site

A cold site provides only basic physical infrastructure with no pre-configured systems or data replication.

CHot siteCorrect

A hot site maintains a real-time mirror of all production applications and data, making it immediately operational in the event of a disaster. The technician's finding that 'everything is operational, with all applications and data mirrored' precisely matches the hot site definition. Hot sites have the highest cost but the shortest recovery time objective (RTO).

DStandby site

'Standby site' is not a standard industry classification for disaster recovery alternate sites.

Concept tested: Disaster recovery hot site identification

Source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-34r1.pdf

Topics

#hot site#disaster recovery site types#data mirroring#business continuity

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