ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

Reciprocal agreements are attractive because they avoid the standing costs of dedicated hot, warm, or cold sites. The drawback is that the partner's capacity is only "best-effort." During a regional or industry-wide incident the partner will give priority to its own recovery and may have no spare compute, network, or staff to allocate. That uncertainty makes RTO and RPO hard to guarantee. The other options describe characteristics that do not typically apply to reciprocal agreements: they are inexpensive precisely because there is no ongoing fee for idle capacity; no regulation categorically bans such arrangements, provided contractual and compliance controls are in place; and AWS fully supports cross-account recovery through services like AWS Backup and AWS DataSync, so platform limitations are not the primary concern.