A Systems Developer Needs to Provide Machine-To-Machine Interface Between an Application

question 1146

Multiple Choice

A systems developer needs to provide machine-to-machine interface between an application and a database server in the production environment. This interface will exchange data once per day. Which of the following access control account practices would BEST be used in this situation?

• A) Establish a privileged interface group and apply read-write permission to the members of that group.
• B) Submit a request for account privilege escalation when the data needs to be transferred.
• C) Install the application and database on the same server and add the interface to the local administrator group.
• D) Use a service account and prohibit users from accessing this account for development work.