Question

A regional insurance company must ensure its claims-processing application can resume within 8 hours of a data center outage. The application changes frequently, and business impact analysis sets an RPO of 4 hours. Leadership wants to minimize ongoing costs while still meeting these targets. The IT team is choosing between recovery site strategies. Which option BEST balances the recovery objectives with cost efficiency?

Accepted Answer

A warm site with pre-installed hardware and network connectivity, requiring data restoration and application configuration before use

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A cold site with hardware ordered and configured after a disaster is declared

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A hot site running fully mirrored, real-time synchronized systems ready for immediate cutover

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A reciprocal agreement with a peer company to share spare capacity during emergencies