An organization wants to consolidate its entire user information in centralized storage using an X.500- based protocol. Which of the following protocols should be used for this implementation?

The correct answer is B. LDAP. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is directly derived from the X.500 Directory Access Protocol (DAP) standard. It provides a hierarchical, centralized directory service for storing and retrieving user account information, credentials, group memberships, and other…

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An organization wants to consolidate its entire user information in centralized storage using an X.500- based protocol. Which of the following protocols should be used for this implementation?

Options

ARADIUS
BLDAP
CDNS
DDHCP

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B
94% (29)
C
3% (1)
D
3% (1)

Explanation

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is directly derived from the X.500 Directory Access Protocol (DAP) standard. It provides a hierarchical, centralized directory service for storing and retrieving user account information, credentials, group memberships, and other organizational data. It is the industry-standard protocol for centralized identity management (used in Active Directory, OpenLDAP, etc.). RADIUS is an AAA protocol for network access authentication but is not X.500-based. DNS is a distributed naming system for resolving hostnames to IPs, not for user data storage. DHCP dynamically assigns IP addresses and is entirely unrelated to user directory services.

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