You are the main person responsible for the security of a mid-sized company. To have control
over all the aspects of the security of the network, you study and analyze each component
thoroughly. Your network is running all Windows 2003 servers, and you are studying the logon
process. You know there are many components of the process, and are now at the point where
you are analyzing the Security Accounts Manager (SAM). What is the SAM?

A.
The SAM is a listing of users or group SIDS

B.
The SAM is an authentication protocol used by Windows to authenticate clients

C.
The SAM is used to check user permissions in order to access an object

D.
The SAM is used to store user account information

E.
The SAM is used to generate access tokens, and manages authentication