ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
A financial institution requires near-instantaneous recovery of its trading platform after a disaster. The recovery time objective (RTO) is 2 hours, and the recovery point objective (RPO) is 15 minutes. Which recovery site strategy best meets these requirements?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Hot site
A hot site mirrors the production environment continuously, allowing recovery within hours and minimal data loss.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Reciprocal agreement
Why it's wrong here
Reciprocal agreements may have unpredictable availability and longer RTO.
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Warm site
Why it's wrong here
Warm sites are partially configured and typically have RTO of days, not hours.
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Cold site
Why it's wrong here
Cold sites are empty facilities with RTO of weeks.
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Hot site
Why this is correct
Hot sites have real-time replication and can achieve RTO of hours and RPO of minutes.
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Key term
Business Continuity Planning
Business Continuity Planning is the process of creating a strategy to keep an organization's essential functions running during and after a major disruption.
Key term
RTO
Recovery Time Objective is the maximum acceptable time to restore a system or data after a disaster, defining how quickly normal operations must resume.
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