Question

Consider a case where the system is unavailable and cannot deliver its services to users. What type of failure is being described here?

(a) Loss of service

(b) Incorrect service delivery

(c) System/data corruption

(d) None of the mentioned

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Answer 1

Right choice is (a) Loss of service

The explanation is: One may separate this into loss of critical services and loss of non-critical services, where the consequences of a failure in non-critical services are less than the consequences of critical service failure.