What is a recovery site with limited resources and lower initial cost but higher time to get the site up and running?

• A. Recovery (Cold Site)
• B. Privacy
• C. Protocol
• D. QoS

Answer: (A)

Disaster recovery site options differ by how ready they are to run after a disruption. A cold site provides the basic facility—space, power, cooling, and connectivity—without active IT systems or data. You bring in and configure hardware, restore data from backups, install software, and then get operations running. Because you have to set everything up from scratch, the upfront cost is lower, and ongoing costs are reduced, but it takes longer to become fully operational.

This explains why the recovery site with limited resources and a lower initial cost but higher time to get the site up and running is described as a cold site. The other options aren’t about recovery sites: privacy relates to data protection, protocol is a set of rules for communication, and QoS focuses on prioritizing network traffic.