SK0-004 · Question #632
A company implements a cold site for disaster recovery purposes due to a risk of hurricanes at its headquarters location. Which of the following BEST describes why the company chose to use a cold…
The correct answer is D. A hot or warm site would have higher setup and ongoing costs. Cold sites are the lowest-cost disaster recovery option because they provide only empty space and basic utilities, avoiding the continuous hardware, software, and connectivity expenses required by warm or hot sites.
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A company implements a cold site for disaster recovery purposes due to a risk of hurricanes at its headquarters location. Which of the following BEST describes why the company chose to use a cold site?
Options
- ACold sites have fewer hurricanes than warm or hot sites.
- BA hot or warm site would have a higher MTTR than a cold site
- CCold sites are the easiest to implement in the event of a disaster
- DA hot or warm site would have higher setup and ongoing costs
How the community answered
(26 responses)- A4% (1)
- B4% (1)
- C12% (3)
- D81% (21)
Why each option
Cold sites are the lowest-cost disaster recovery option because they provide only empty space and basic utilities, avoiding the continuous hardware, software, and connectivity expenses required by warm or hot sites.
Disaster recovery site classifications (cold, warm, hot) describe the level of operational readiness, not geographic placement or exposure to natural hazards.
Cold sites actually produce the highest MTTR because they require the most manual setup before operations can resume - hot sites have the lowest MTTR due to near-instant failover capability.
Cold sites are the hardest to activate quickly in a disaster because they require full hardware procurement, installation, and configuration before the business can resume operations.
Hot sites require fully configured, continuously running hardware and software mirroring the production environment, while warm sites require pre-staged hardware with partial configuration - both incur significant upfront capital and ongoing operational costs. A cold site is essentially bare floor space with power and connectivity, resulting in substantially lower setup and maintenance expenses.
Concept tested: Disaster recovery site types and cost tradeoffs
Source: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-34/rev-1/final
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