Exam SK0-005 topic 1 question 152 discussion

A warm site is a type of disaster recovery site that provides a balance between cost and recovery time objectives. It is an intermediate solution between a hot site and a cold site. The BEST description of a warm site is B. The site has all infrastructure and some data. A warm site has all the necessary infrastructure, such as power, cooling, and network connectivity, but only a subset of the data required to resume normal operations. This allows for a faster recovery time than a cold site, which has no infrastructure or data, but slower than a hot site, which has all infrastructure and live data.

Answer is B. Page 328 and 329 in the (All in one) Comptia Server+ Certification Exam Guide. It states that equipment (did NOT state "some or partial") is in place and ready to use, but that software and data are needed to get it active.

Answer is B. Page 329 in the CompTia Server+ Exam Guide

Hot sites are designed for an immediate takeover of operations in the event of a disaster. They have all the equipment necessary for the business—servers, workstations, network devices, office furniture, power, and Internet connectivity. A hot site is a fully capable location ready at a moment’s notice. Because of this, hot sites are costly—they are essentially a mirror of the primary site, with all associated costs. Data is replicated to the hot site regularly to ensure that it has up-to-date content. Warm sites contain the necessary space for your data center and business offices and some of the required computer and network hardware. For the site to take over from the primary, some equipment needs to be brought in, and some configuration needs to occur. Data has to be migrated to the warm site. This makes the warm site less expensive upfront than a hot site, but it also requires more time to get the business up and running again if there’s a disaster. The Official CompTIA Server+ Study Guide (Exam SK0-005) page 248.

https://blog.icorps.com/bid/101789/types-of-disaster-recovery-sites Cold Computing Sites - the most simplistic type of disaster recovery site. A cold site consists of elements to provide power and networking capability as well as cooling. It does not include other hardware elements such as servers and storage. The use of a cold site is very limiting to a business since before it can be used, backup data along with some additional hardware must be sent to the site and installed. This will impede workflow. Warm Computing Sites - contain all the elements of a cold site while adding to them additional elements including storage hardware such as tape or disk drives along with both servers and switches. Warm sites are "ready to go" in one sense, but they still need to have data transported to them for use in recovery should a disaster occur. Hot Computing Sites - a fully functional backup site that already has important data mirrored to it. This is the ideal disaster recovery site but can be challenging to attain.