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A company is designing a disaster recovery plan and wants to lease an off-site secondary facility. The leased facility includes physical space, power, heating and cooling, and basic network connectivity, but contains no pre-installed computing hardware or restored data. Which type of recovery site does this location represent?

  1. Cold siteAnswer
  2. B
    Warm site
  3. C
    Hot site
  4. D
    Active-active site

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The facility represents a cold site because it provides basic infrastructure utilities such as space, power, and cooling, but does not contain pre-installed hardware or active data.
A cold site is a secondary recovery location that provides essential physical infrastructure—such as power, HVAC, shell space, and basic communication links—but has no pre-installed server hardware, SAN storage, or active data backups. Organizations must bring in hardware and perform full system restores when activating a cold site.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the readiness parameters of the secondary facility described in the scenario.
The location includes physical space, power, HVAC, and network connectivity, but lacks pre-installed server hardware and data backups.
Categorizing a disaster recovery site requires evaluating the hardware and data readiness level.
2
Match the facility characteristics to standard disaster recovery site definitions.
A site with space and environmental utilities but no pre-configured computing hardware is defined as a cold site.
Cold sites are the least expensive recovery options but require the longest time to make fully operational after a disaster.

Key Concept

Disaster Recovery Site Classifications (Cold Site vs. Warm Site vs. Hot Site)
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

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