Which of the following disaster recovery strategies has the highest cost and shortest recovery time?

A.
Warm site

B.
Hot site

C.
Cold site

D.
Co-location site

Explanation:
A hot site is a location that can provide operations within hours of a failure. This type of site would have
servers, networks, and telecommunications equipment in place to reestablish service in a short time. Hot
sites provide network connectivity, systems, and preconfigured software to meet the needs of an
organization. Databases can be kept up-to-date using network connections. These types of facilities are
expensive, and they’re primarily suitable for short-term situations.
Incorrect Answers:
A: A warm site provides some of the capabilities of a hot site, but it requires the customer to do more
work to become operational. Warm sites provide computer systems and compatible media capabilities.
C: A cold site is a facility that isn’t immediately ready to use. The organization using it must bring along its
equipment and network. A cold site may provide network capability, but this isn’t usually the case; thesite provides a place for operations to resume, but it doesn’t provide the infrastructure to support those
operations.
D: A co-location site is type of site where your web hosting is done, e.g. an ISP, or a web hosting company
where many different customers host their web presence.

Dulaney, Emmett and Chuck Eastton, CompTIA Security+ Study Guide, 6th Edition, Sybex, Indianapolis,
2014, pp. 443-444