Gen Mobile employees want to connect their personal devices to their corporate networks. Which significant issue does this pose to IT?

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• Aa decrease in employee productivity because they use their devices for non-work activity
• Blower morale among older employees who feel that management favors younger workers
• Can increase in the threat of hackers attacking the company with viruses and malware
• Dan increase in the difficulty of maintaining inventory control and upgrading applications Answer: D

Explanation

D is correct because when employees use personal devices (a practice called BYOD - Bring Your Own Device), IT departments lose centralized control over hardware and software. They cannot easily track which devices are on the network, enforce uniform software versions, push updates, or ensure consistent security configurations - making inventory management and application upgrades significantly harder.

Why the others are wrong:

• A is a management/HR concern, not an IT infrastructure problem - productivity monitoring is handled through policy, not IT systems.
• B is a workplace culture issue entirely unrelated to IT's technical responsibilities.
• C is a plausible distractor, but it's not the primary IT challenge BYOD poses; the bigger operational headache is the loss of standardized control over devices, not just the security threat itself (which already exists with or without BYOD).

Memory tip: Think of IT as running a fleet of company cars - if employees suddenly start driving their own cars on company business, the biggest headache isn't just accidents (security), it's that you no longer know what cars are out there, can't enforce maintenance schedules, and can't upgrade them all at once. That's the inventory and upgrade control problem.

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