Which recovery option provides a site with complete duplication of original site resources, ensuring the fastest disaster recovery?

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

Answer: (A)

The fastest disaster recovery is achieved with a hot site. A hot site provides a fully duplicated environment of the original site—complete hardware, software, data, network connections, and power—already configured and kept up-to-date. Because everything is ready to run, you can switch over with minimal or no downtime, enabling near-immediate recovery.

A warm site has the infrastructure in place but typically lacks up-to-date data and may need restoration or reconfiguration before it can take over. A generic recovery site isn’t guaranteed to be ready to operate right away. Remote backups store data offsite but don’t provide an active, ready-to-run duplicate environment, so restoring and provisioning the environment takes longer.