An administrator at a small company replaces servers whenever budget money becomes
available. Over the past several years the company has acquired and still uses 20 servers and 50
desktops from five different computer manufacturers. Which of the following are management
challenges and risks associated with this style of technology lifecycle management?
A.
Decreased security posture, decommission of outdated hardware, inability to centrally manage,
and performance bottlenecks on old hardware.
B.
Increased mean time to failure rate of legacy servers, OS variances, patch availability, and
ability to restore to dissimilar hardware.
C.
OS end-of-support issues, ability to backup data, hardware parts availability, and firmware
update availability and management.
D.
Inability to use virtualization, trusted OS complexities, and multiple patch versions based on OS
dependency.