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Can you help with the Evaluation of Alternative Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Recovery Facilities? See instructions below.

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The Evaluation of Alternative Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Recovery Facilities 1) Define the concepts cold sites, warm sites and hot sites and includes which elements are characteristic of each type of installation: a) Cold sites b) Warm sites c) Hot sides 2) Provide three (3) examples of how to implement a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) at each of these alternate recovery facilities: a) Cold sites b) Warm sites c) Hot sites Α Α Α

Answer 1

Answer 1):

a) : cold sites : A cold site is a similar type of disaster recovery service that provides office space, but the customer provides and installs all the equipment needed to continue operations. A cold site is less expensive, but it takes longer to get an enterprise in full operation after the disaster.

b) : warm sites : A warm site is a type of facility an organization uses to recover its technology infrastructure when its primary data center goes down. A warm site features an equipped data center but no customer data.

c) : hot sites : A hot site is a commercial disaster recovery service that allows a business to continue computer and network operations.

Answer 2) :

Example of cold sites : A cold site is essentially office or datacenter space without any server-related equipment installed. ...

Example of warm sites : A warm site is the middle ground of the two disaster recovery options.

Example of hot sites : Hot sites are essentially mirrors of your datacenter infrastructure. ...