CERTIFIED-IN-CYBERSECURITY · Question #352
Which of the following controls safeguards an organization during a blackout power outage?
The correct answer is B. Uninterruptible power supply (UPS). A UPS provides immediate, battery-backed power the instant a blackout occurs, giving systems time to gracefully shut down or continue operating briefly without interruption. A generator also supplies backup power but has a startup delay of seconds to minutes, making it…
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Which of the following controls safeguards an organization during a blackout power outage?
Options
- ARedundant servers
- BUninterruptible power supply (UPS)
- CGenerator
- DRAID
How the community answered
(29 responses)- A7% (2)
- B90% (26)
- D3% (1)
Explanation
A UPS provides immediate, battery-backed power the instant a blackout occurs, giving systems time to gracefully shut down or continue operating briefly without interruption. A generator also supplies backup power but has a startup delay of seconds to minutes, making it unsuitable as the first line of defense during an instantaneous blackout-generators complement a UPS rather than replace it. Redundant servers address hardware availability but do not help if all servers lose power. RAID provides disk-level data redundancy but is irrelevant to power outages.
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