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SK0-004 · Question #97

Which of the following describes an alternate site where only the infrastructure (building, power, cooling) has been established?

The correct answer is D. Cold site. A cold site provides only basic physical infrastructure such as the building, power, and cooling, with no pre-installed hardware or software, making it the most time-consuming recovery option.

Security and disaster recovery

Question

Which of the following describes an alternate site where only the infrastructure (building, power, cooling) has been established?

Options

  • AMirror site
  • BWarm site
  • CHot site
  • DCold site

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • D
    91% (21)

Why each option

A cold site provides only basic physical infrastructure such as the building, power, and cooling, with no pre-installed hardware or software, making it the most time-consuming recovery option.

AMirror site

A mirror site is a fully synchronized real-time duplicate of the production environment, not a bare-infrastructure-only facility.

BWarm site

A warm site has some pre-installed hardware and partial configuration already in place, making it more ready than a cold site.

CHot site

A hot site is a fully operational facility that mirrors the production environment and can assume operations with minimal downtime, the opposite of a cold site.

DCold siteCorrect

A cold site establishes only the physical facility components - building space, electrical power, and environmental cooling - but contains no pre-configured servers, networking equipment, or software. Because all IT equipment must be procured and installed after a disaster is declared, cold sites have the longest recovery time but the lowest ongoing cost among alternate site types.

Concept tested: Disaster recovery alternate site classification types

Topics

#cold site#disaster recovery#alternate site#business continuity

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