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Response to Loss of Analysis and Monitoring Tools

4.e Response to Loss of Analysis and Monitoring Tools is one of the 31 knowledge areas in the NERC System Operator Certification content outlines. It is worth 3 scored questions on RC, 3 on BT, 3 on TO and 3 on BI. It carries the same weight on all four exams. Grid Prep has 30 questions on it. In the bank, they most often cite TOP-001-6, IRO-018-1(i) and TOP-003-7. One is free below.

RC3of 120Untouched, it shows −3.0 in "Where the marks are going" BT3of 120Untouched, it shows −3.0 in "Where the marks are going" TO3of 100Untouched, it shows −3.0 in "Where the marks are going" BI3of 100Untouched, it shows −3.0 in "Where the marks are going"

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Answer it before you open the explanation. On the exam there's no explanation, and you have about 77 seconds a question on RC and BT, 90 on TO and BI.

Question 1 · Application

An Energy Management System vendor asks to take a Transmission Operator's Real-time Contingency Analysis out of service during the afternoon peak. Who must hold the authority to approve that outage?

A. The Transmission Operator's Reliability Coordinator
B. The Transmission Operator's compliance manager
C. The Transmission Operator's Balancing Authority
D. The Transmission Operator's own System Operators

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Answer D The Transmission Operator's own System Operators

TOP-001-6 Requirement R16 requires the Transmission Operator to give its System Operators the authority to approve planned outages and maintenance of telemetering and control equipment, monitoring and assessment capabilities, and associated communication channels. IRO-002-7 Requirement R4 places the same authority with the Reliability Coordinator's own System Operators for its tools.

Reference: TOP-001-6 R16; IRO-002-7 R4

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