Your organization is revising the backup plan for a file server that holds two very different data sets. The first set consists of CAD drawings that engineers update several times each workday and are essential to active customer projects. The second is a collection of archived system log files that must be kept for 90 days to meet audit requirements but are rarely accessed.
To reduce operating expenses, you propose keeping hourly snapshots of the CAD share on high-performance disk while moving the log folder to inexpensive object storage with weekly backups. Which business-impact consideration from the Server+ data-security objectives best justifies using separate protection tiers for these data sets?
Data value prioritization is the practice of classifying information by its importance to the business and then assigning protection mechanisms (backup frequency, media type, replication level, etc.) that match that value. The CAD drawings directly affect revenue-generating projects, so they warrant frequent snapshots on fast media. The rarely used log files have a much lower impact, so placing them on low-cost storage with less-frequent backups is acceptable. Life-cycle management focuses on retention and disposal policies rather than day-to-day protection levels, physical-location storage is about where data resides geographically, and UEFI/BIOS passwords protect server firmware, not data. Therefore, data value prioritization is the clearest business-impact justification for the tiered design.