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SY0-501 Question #28: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is C: Resiliency. Vendor diversity is a strategy of using multiple vendors for critical systems to avoid single points of failure and reduce the impact of vendor-specific vulnerabilities or outages.

Submitted by tyler.j· Mar 4, 2026

Question

Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?

Options

  • ASustainability
  • BHomogeneity
  • CResiliency
  • DConfigurability

Explanation

Vendor diversity is a strategy of using multiple vendors for critical systems to avoid single points of failure and reduce the impact of vendor-specific vulnerabilities or outages.

Common mistakes.

  • A. Sustainability refers to long-term environmental or operational continuity practices and is not a direct security advantage of using multiple vendors.
  • B. Homogeneity is actually the opposite of vendor diversity - it describes a uniform, single-vendor environment, which increases risk by creating a single point of failure or a common vulnerability across all systems.
  • D. Configurability refers to the ability to customize or adjust a system's settings and is not a security benefit specifically associated with implementing vendor diversity.

Concept tested. Vendor diversity as a resiliency and risk mitigation strategy

Reference. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/reliability/redundancy

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