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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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)- A2% (1)
- B86% (43)
- C8% (4)
- D4% (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.
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.
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.
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.
'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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