A system designer needs to factor in CIA requirements for a new SAN. Which of the CIA requirements is BEST met by multipathing?

The correct answer is D. Availability. Multipathing creates multiple redundant physical or logical paths between a host and storage (SAN). If one path fails due to a cable fault, HBA failure, or switch outage, I/O automatically fails over to an alternate path without interruption. This directly addresses…

Technical Integration of Enterprise Components

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Options

AConfidentiality
BAuthentication
CIntegrity
DAvailability

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A
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4% (1)
D
89% (24)

Explanation

Multipathing creates multiple redundant physical or logical paths between a host and storage (SAN). If one path fails due to a cable fault, HBA failure, or switch outage, I/O automatically fails over to an alternate path without interruption. This directly addresses Availability - ensuring data and storage resources remain accessible despite component failures. It does not encrypt data (Confidentiality) or verify data has not been tampered with (Integrity), and Authentication is not a CIA triad component. Multipathing is purely a high-availability and fault-tolerance mechanism.

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