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• ADecreased security posture, decommission of outdated hardware, inability to centrally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

• B
  85% (17)
• C
  10% (2)
• D
  5% (1)

Explanation

Piecemeal, unplanned hardware acquisition produces a heterogeneous environment with multiple hardware generations and vendors. The primary risks are: (1) increased mean time to failure (MTTF) as legacy hardware ages and becomes less reliable; (2) OS variances across different hardware generations requiring different OSes or OS versions; and (3) inconsistent patch availability, since vendors and OS publishers may have ended support for older hardware/OS combinations. These directly reflect the technical and operational risks of an unmanaged technology lifecycle. Options A, C, and D describe some valid issues but are either incomplete, truncated, or less central to the core risks of this specific scenario.

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