A county 911 CAD system must resume within hours after a data-center outage, while a rarely used archive warehouse can wait days for space and hardware. Which recovery-site strategy best matches those two needs?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Think of a spare garage versus a fully stocked spare kitchen. CAD needs gear ready fast—hot or warm. The archive can wait for empty space and install day—cold. Match the site type to how quickly the service must come back.
Full Explanation
Recovery site selection is driven by recovery time and recovery point objectives, not by treating every system the same. Hot and warm sites keep infrastructure (and often recent data) ready so critical public-safety systems such as CAD can fail over within hours. Cold sites provide facility readiness with little or no pre-staged compute, which is usually enough for lower-priority archives. High availability and fault tolerance inside a site complement, but do not replace, geographic recovery strategies when the whole primary facility is lost.