Which recovery option has a lower upfront cost but longer time to become fully operational?

• A. Recovery (Cold Site)
• B. Privacy
• C. Protocol
• D. Quad (SFP) or QSFP Transceiver

Answer: (A)

In disaster recovery planning, you balance upfront expense with how quickly you can be back to full operation. A cold site fits that trade-off: it provides space, power, and network access at a minimal upfront cost, but there are no active servers or data ready to go. You must procure hardware, install systems, restore data from backups, and configure everything, so the time to be fully operational is longer.

In contrast, warm and hot sites have pre-installed equipment and, in some cases, live data or replication, which lets you resume operations much faster but at a higher upfront price. The other options—privacy, protocol, and transceiver hardware—aren’t about how quickly or cheaply you can recover, so they don’t fit the scenario.