What rule governs how the system selects settings when multiple levels have configurations?

• A. Provider records
• B. User records
• C. Rule of Specificity
• D. Rooms

Answer: (C)

When multiple levels have configurations, the system uses the most specific setting to determine what applies. This Rule of Specificity means the configuration tied to the most granular context takes precedence over more general defaults. It creates predictable behavior: a room-level override will apply to devices in that room even if a global setting exists, and a user-specific override will apply to that user even if a room-specific setting exists for others. The exact outcome depends on which scopes are present, but the guiding idea is that the most narrowly targeted configuration wins. The other sources (provider, user, or room) are types of settings, but what determines which one is applied is this prioritization by specificity.