A small office has installed a server inside a writing closet. Users report losing connectivity to the server at various times throughout the day. Which of the following should have been considered…

Servers produce substantial heat during operation, and a writing closet lacks adequate ventilation and airflow. Without proper thermal management, the server overheats and triggers built-in thermal protection mechanisms - throttling performance or initiating a shutdown - which explains the intermittent connectivity loss reported at various times throughout the day as heat accumulates.

Redundant power addresses power failure scenarios and would cause consistent, total outages rather than the intermittent dropouts correlated with heat buildup over time.

Antivirus software is a security measure that operates at the software layer and has no bearing on physical server availability due to environmental conditions.

A chassis lock is a physical security feature preventing unauthorized hardware access and does not influence server uptime or network connectivity.