What is considered the major disadvantage to employing a hot site for disaster recovery?
A.
The site is immediately available for recovery.
B.
Maintaining the site is expensive.
C.
Annual testing is required to maintain the site.
D.
Exclusivity is assured for processing at the site.
Explanation:
The correct answer is the expense of maintaining the site. A hot site is commonly used for those
extremely time-critical functions that the business must have up and running to continue operating,
but the expense of duplicating and maintaining all of the hardware, software, and application
elements is a serious resource drain to most organizations.