SK0-004 · Question #122
A company is planning to replace old hardware and needs to budget accordingly. Which of the following is likely to contain a list of end of life servers?
The correct answer is C. The asset management database. An asset management database tracks the full inventory of company-owned hardware including purchase dates, lifecycle status, and end-of-life designations for specific deployed servers.
Question
A company is planning to replace old hardware and needs to budget accordingly. Which of the following is likely to contain a list of end of life servers?
Options
- AThe server's warranty information.
- BThe server's life cycle schedule.
- CThe asset management database.
- DThe software licensing agreement.
How the community answered
(49 responses)- A4% (2)
- C94% (46)
- D2% (1)
Why each option
An asset management database tracks the full inventory of company-owned hardware including purchase dates, lifecycle status, and end-of-life designations for specific deployed servers.
Warranty information covers repair and replacement terms for a specific unit but does not define or track end-of-life status across the server inventory.
A life cycle schedule is a vendor-published document showing when a product line reaches EOL, not a company-internal list of which deployed servers are EOL.
An asset management database records detailed information about every hardware asset in the organization, including acquisition date, model, support status, and EOL date. This makes it the authoritative internal source for identifying which specific servers in the company have reached or are approaching end of life, enabling accurate budget planning for replacements.
A software licensing agreement governs software usage rights and terms, and contains no information about hardware end-of-life status.
Concept tested: Asset management database and hardware lifecycle tracking
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/understand-azure-lifecycle
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