Exam SK0-004 topic 1 question 286 discussion

Actual exam question from CompTIA's SK0-004

Question #: 286
Topic #: 1

A telephone company is responsible for maintaining a list of 25 million names and phone numbers for inclusion in printed phone books as well as in an inline phone directory accessible on the company's website. Which of the following types of servers would be MOST appropriate to store its information?

A. Web server
B. Directory server
C. File server
D. Database server

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by Racgud at Nov. 24, 2020, 8:46 a.m.

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Annahubanna

3 months ago

Selected Answer: D

Directory server can't be right as it's used for authentication and access control. Database server is the one to manage a large set of structured data (25 million names and phone numbers), which needs to be efficiently queried and retrieved for both printed phone books and an online directory

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Dirkster

4 years ago

The answer must be D. A database server is used to collect and maintain large amounts of information. A directory server is to maintain employee access to networked data.

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Vasco1

4 years, 4 months ago

Telephony companies have telephone line servers which contain the active directory domain service. AD DS contain a database supported by LDAP to host domain users, groups, computers and even telephone numbers.

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Baldilocks_McFedders

4 years, 3 months ago

AD is not the most efficient way to store 25M names, addresses and phone numbers which in then exacerbated by the fact that practically none of those folks will be accessing the phone company's server which needs authentication and you are then slowing down the system since it has tens of millions of unnecessary records to sort and move. A database is the best way to store that information.

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Racgud

4 years, 5 months ago

Why is the answer B and not D?