N10-005 · Question #693
Which of the following devices acts as a gateway between clients and servers?
The correct answer is B. Proxy server. A proxy server acts as an intermediary between clients and servers. Clients send requests to the proxy, which forwards them to the destination server on the client's behalf, then returns the response to the client. This enables caching, content filtering, anonymization, and…
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Which of the following devices acts as a gateway between clients and servers?
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- AWINS server
- BProxy server
- CContent filter
- DDNS server
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Explanation
A proxy server acts as an intermediary between clients and servers. Clients send requests to the proxy, which forwards them to the destination server on the client's behalf, then returns the response to the client. This enables caching, content filtering, anonymization, and access control. A WINS server resolves NetBIOS names, a DNS server resolves hostnames to IPs, and a content filter restricts access to certain sites - none of these fundamentally act as a request/response gateway between clients and servers the way a proxy does.
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