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Where Should the Data Center Go?

Ten findings from a site survey. Sort each one by the site factor it bears on.

⚑ Complete this interactive to capture a CTF flag worth 5 points.

About this interactive

The lesson's considerations for choosing where to host: Disaster risk: is the area prone to earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes or floods? A robust building helps, but the services coming into it can still fail. Power: is electricity plentiful, and how much does it cost? Connectivity: is high-speed internet available to reach the services? Climate: cooling takes a lot of energy, so a very hot place costs more to run. Staffing: are there people available to work there? The lesson's own region, inland from an earthquake-prone coast with cheap hydroelectric power and fast fiber, draws data centers from Amazon, Google and others. A finding can count for a site or against it; sort it by the factor it is about.

What you'll learn

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CompTIA Security+
3.4 Explain the importance of resilience and recovery in security architecture.

Key terms

Data Center
A facility that houses computing infrastructure such as servers, storage, and networking equipment used to deliver IT services.
High Availability
HA
High Availability describes systems designed to operate continuously with minimal downtime, achieved through redundancy, failover clustering, and load balancing to meet the Availability pillar of the CIA triad.
Availability
The assurance that systems and data are accessible and operational when needed by authorized users.

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