What term describes a recovery option that mirrors the original site's resources to minimize downtime?

• A. Hot Site Recovery
• B. Cold Site
• C. Warm Site
• D. Backup Site

Answer: (A)

In disaster recovery planning, the option that mirrors the original site's resources and can take over with minimal downtime is a hot site. A hot site is a fully equipped facility with hardware, software, network connectivity, and often up-to-date data copies that replicate the production environment. Because everything is ready to go, you can switch over quickly, keeping downtime—and thus the recovery time objective and recovery point objective—very low.

A cold site, by contrast, provides only space and basic utilities; you must bring in hardware and restore data before you can operate, leading to longer downtime. A warm site has some infrastructure and data replication but isn’t fully ready to run, so it requires additional steps to activate. A backup site is a general term for an offsite location used for backups and doesn’t inherently guarantee immediate operational capability.