An administrator at a small company replaces servers whenever budget money becomes available. Over the past several years the company has acquired and still uses 20 servers and 50 desktops from five…

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Options

• ADecreased security posture, decommission of outdated hardware, inability to centrally manage,
• BIncreased mean time to failure rate of legacy servers, OS variances, patch availability, and ability
• COS end-of-support issues, ability to backup data, hardware parts availability, and firmware update
• DInability to use virtualization, trusted OS complexities, and multiple patch versions based on OS

• A
  15% (6)
• B
  73% (29)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

Ad-hoc, budget-driven hardware replacement over multiple years from five different manufacturers results in a highly heterogeneous environment. The key risks are: increased hardware failure rates as aging legacy servers approach and exceed their rated lifecycle (impacting mean time to failure); OS variances across different hardware generations and manufacturers requiring different drivers, configurations, and management approaches; inconsistent patch availability as vendors drop support for older hardware and OS versions; and the complexity of managing multiple patch levels across diverse platforms. Option A mentions decommissioning outdated hardware as a challenge, which is somewhat circular. Option C has some validity but is narrower. Option D focuses on virtualization inability, which is not the primary concern here.

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