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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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Question

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)
  • A
    7% (2)
  • B
    90% (26)
  • D
    3% (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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#Business Continuity#Power Management#Physical Security#Disaster Recovery

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