Cloud Backup Practice Test & Exam Prep

Disaster recovery options are categorized by how quickly you can resume operations after a disruption. A cold site provides only space, power, and connectivity; there are no active servers or data available there, so you must bring in equipment and restore systems from backups, which typically takes days to weeks. This matches the description of a facility that offers just space, power, and network access and requires a lengthy recovery period. In contrast, a hot site has ready-to-run hardware with replicated data for near-immediate failover, and a warm site provides some pre-installed infrastructure and data but still needs setup to fully operate. A hot spare is standby hardware kept ready to replace a failed component within production, not a separate disaster recovery site.