FSNA Readiness Practice Exam

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An alternate location that is up, running, and ready for users to work from in the time of a disaster is called a ____________.

Warm Site

Hot Site

In disaster recovery, different alternate locations are described by how ready they are to take over. A hot site is an alternate facility that is fully equipped and continuously synchronized with the production environment, with power, cooling, networking, and up-to-date data so users can switch over and continue work with little to no downtime. That’s why the description “up, running, and ready for users to work from” fits a hot site best.

A warm site has some preinstalled infrastructure but usually requires additional configuration or data restoration, causing some downtime. A cold site provides space and basic power/cooling but no active systems, so you must bring in hardware and data before you can operate. A disaster site isn’t a standard term for this context.

Cold Site

Disaster Site