Exam 70-486 topic 1 question 22 discussion

Actual exam question from Microsoft's 70-486

Question #: 22
Topic #: 1

You are developing an ASP.NET MVC application. The application is deployed in a web farm and is accessed by many users.
The application must handle web server failures gracefully. The servers in the farm must share the short-term state information.
You need to persist the application state during the session.
What should you implement?

A. ASP.NET session state
B. A local database
C. A state server
D. Profile properties

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️
ASP.NET session state service provides a somewhat slower service than the in-process variant as we need to make calls to a remote server. All session data is stored in memory so shutting down the state machine will wipe out all session data as well.
References:
https://dotnetcodr.com/2013/07/01/web-farms-in-net-and-iis-part-5-session-state-management/

by Josph920 at March 24, 2019, 8:57 p.m.