What term describes a recovery site that houses only essential hardware and data?

• A. Warm Site
• B. Hot Site
• C. Cold Site
• D. Mirror Site

Answer: (A)

Disaster recovery site readiness levels describe how prepared a backup location is to take over after a failure. A warm site fits the description because it has essential hardware and recent data backups, but it isn’t fully configured or ready to run immediately. It requires some setup and data restoration, which means a moderate recovery time. This sits between a cold site (which provides space but no hardware or data) and a hot site (which is fully equipped and ready to operate immediately). A mirror site, by contrast, is usually an exact real-time copy of production data and is typically ready to take over with minimal downtime, so it doesn’t match the idea of “only essential hardware and data.”