What should you implement?

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

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Answer: C

Explanation:

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/