What type of server allows administrators to manage and store info about resources on a network?

• A. Directory Services
• B. Active Directory
• C. Resource Manager
• D. Server Registry

Answer: (B)

Centralized management of network resources is done with a directory service, a specialized database that stores information about objects like users, computers, printers, shares, and their permissions, while providing fast lookup and policy enforcement. Active Directory is Microsoft's implementation of that directory service. It gives administrators a single place to create and manage user accounts, computer accounts, groups, and access policies, and it enforces who can access what across the network. While Directory Services describes the concept, Active Directory is the concrete server technology used on Windows networks to perform this role. The other options don’t fit because Resource Manager isn’t a directory of network resources, and Server Registry isn’t a directory service for managing network resources.