StudyToCert

All certifications / CISSP / Lessons

ISC2 CISSP 2024 outline · Domain 3: Security architecture & engineering

Site and facility controls: wiring closets, server rooms, utilities, HVAC, fire suppression, environmental

▶ Watch the overview video

Last reviewed September 30, 2026 · Leer en español

Once a facility is designed, specific controls protect the rooms and systems inside it. This lesson covers the practical details the exam likes to test: wiring closets and server rooms, power, heating and cooling, fire detection and suppression, and environmental monitoring. They matter because most of them protect availability, and some of them protect lives. A perfectly patched server is useless when the room it sits in overheats or floods.

Free account

Keep reading for free

Create a free StudyToCert account to read the rest of this lesson: 7 more sections, 7 key terms, a real-world example, an exam tip and self-check questions. Every lesson, lab and practice test is free with an account.

Sign up free Log in

Study CISSP for free
A week-by-week plan with every lesson, quizzes, checkpoint tests, a practice exam and hands-on labs.
Open the CISSP study plan