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An auditor wants to reduce the server footprint in a company's remote datacenter to decrease hosting costs. Regarding life-cycle management, which if the following is the auditor MOST likely to look…

The correct answer is B. Procurement date, current usage, and scheduled end of life. Life-cycle management focuses on tracking when assets were acquired, how they are currently being used, and when they are scheduled for retirement to support decommissioning decisions.

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Question

An auditor wants to reduce the server footprint in a company's remote datacenter to decrease hosting costs. Regarding life-cycle management, which if the following is the auditor MOST likely to look for in reviewing the company's asset data?

Options

  • AMake, model, asset tag, and serial number
  • BProcurement date, current usage, and scheduled end of life
  • CLicensing, warranty expiration date, and efficiency
  • DServer configuration, MTBF, and replacement cost

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    7% (3)
  • B
    85% (35)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    2% (1)

Why each option

Life-cycle management focuses on tracking when assets were acquired, how they are currently being used, and when they are scheduled for retirement to support decommissioning decisions.

AMake, model, asset tag, and serial number

Make, model, asset tag, and serial number are inventory identification fields used to locate and catalog assets, not to evaluate whether an asset should be retired from service.

BProcurement date, current usage, and scheduled end of lifeCorrect

Procurement date, current usage, and scheduled end of life are the core data points for life-cycle management. An auditor reviewing these fields can identify servers that are underutilized or approaching end of life, making them candidates for decommissioning and directly reducing the datacenter footprint and hosting costs.

CLicensing, warranty expiration date, and efficiency

Licensing and warranty expiration relate to compliance and vendor support management, while efficiency is an operational metric - none of these fields indicate whether a server has reached the end of its useful life.

DServer configuration, MTBF, and replacement cost

Server configuration, MTBF, and replacement cost are operational and reliability metrics used for capacity planning and failure forecasting, not for determining which servers should be decommissioned.

Concept tested: IT asset life-cycle management and decommissioning decisions

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/clients/manage/asset-intelligence/introduction-to-asset-intelligence

Topics

#lifecycle management#asset management#decommissioning#end of life

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