Microsoft Desktop Support Tech Exam Prep

Answer - D - Standby feature is less preferred than the hibernation feature, because the Standby mode tends to lose data during a power outage.

Key Takeaway: Standby turns off power consuming components, like the hard disks and monitor, and switches the computer to a low power state. Any contents of memory and unsaved desktop settings are lost. Hibernation saves state information by writing a hibernation file, which contains the contents of the memory and is thus the same size as the total RAM. Since Standby mode saves data on the memory that is volatile, if there is a power outage, all data will be lost.