ITPEC FE Morning October 2022 Question 55
ITPEC FE Morning October 2022 — Question 55 of 80
A mission-critical system is one whose failure causes serious harm to corporate operations or society at large. Examples include banking transaction systems, air traffic control, and power grid management.
- •The key word is "critical" — the focus is on the consequences of failure, not on the system's role in architecture
Why not others:
- (a) Describes a core/essential system necessary for operations — close, but "like an OS" misleads; mission-critical emphasizes failure impact, not architectural role
- (c) Describes a pilot system — trial installation before full rollout
- (d) Describes a system running near its capacity limit — unrelated concept
Key rule: Mission-critical = failure causes significant damage to business or society.
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