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An organization wants to add mobile devices to its asset management system to improve tracking. In which system tier of the reference architecture would those mobile devices be tracked?

Explanation

NIST’s IT Asset Management reference architecture defines Tier 3 as the enterprise assets being tracked, including hardware, software, and virtual machines. Mobile devices are hardware endpoint assets and therefore belong in Tier 3.

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NIST NCCoE IT Asset Management: Reference Architecture

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