What is according to many experts one of the most obvious opportunities for companies to cut costs and achieve green goals?

Question

Options

• AExclusive partnerships with vendors and other parties that work according to a green road map.
• BMeeting the requirements of an environmental standard (such as IEEE 1680). It will ensure
• CConfigure power management setting to desktop computers and lowering power consumption by IT

• A
  5% (3)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  93% (55)

Explanation

Configuring power management settings on desktop computers is widely cited by IT and sustainability experts as one of the simplest, most immediate, and highest-impact ways organizations can reduce both operating costs and energy consumption - desktops are often left running idle for hours, and enabling sleep/hibernate modes or lowering screen brightness can cut energy use by 50–70% with zero capital investment.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• Option A (exclusive vendor partnerships) can support green goals long-term but is complex, costly to establish, and not something experts point to as an obvious quick win.
• Option B (meeting environmental standards like IEEE 1680) is a compliance/certification activity that validates green practices but doesn't directly cut costs in the immediate, operational way that power management does.

Memory tip: Think "flip the switch" - power management is a setting, not a strategy or a standard. When exam questions ask about obvious, immediate, or low-effort green IT wins, the answer almost always involves reducing energy consumption at the device level rather than partnerships or certifications.

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