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SK0-004 · Question #729

An office in another location with hardware and equipment with replicated data is called a:

The correct answer is B. hot site. A hot site is a fully operational duplicate facility with replicated data and active hardware, enabling near-immediate failover in a disaster scenario.

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Question

An office in another location with hardware and equipment with replicated data is called a:

Options

  • Awarm site.
  • Bhot site.
  • Ccold site.
  • Dduplicated site.

How the community answered

(50 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    86% (43)
  • C
    8% (4)
  • D
    4% (2)

Why each option

A hot site is a fully operational duplicate facility with replicated data and active hardware, enabling near-immediate failover in a disaster scenario.

Awarm site.

A warm site has hardware and equipment pre-installed but data is not continuously replicated, requiring additional time to restore and synchronize before full operations can resume.

Bhot site.Correct

A hot site maintains a fully equipped, staffed, and continuously synchronized copy of the primary site - including replicated data and running systems. Because hardware is already installed and data is current, an organization can fail over with minimal downtime, which matches the description of an off-site location with hardware, equipment, and replicated data.

Ccold site.

A cold site provides only basic infrastructure such as power and network access but has no equipment or replicated data installed, requiring significant setup time after a disaster.

Dduplicated site.

'Duplicated site' is not a recognized standard term in disaster recovery planning and does not correspond to any defined DR facility classification.

Concept tested: Disaster recovery site types - hot, warm, and cold

Source: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-34/rev-1/final

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

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