What term refers to a file that records system activities, events, and maintenance logs?

• A. Log file
• B. MIB
• C. Local
• D. Malware

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is about recording what happens on a system over time in a persistent record. A log file is a file that captures system activities, events, and maintenance logs with timestamps, sources, and details of what occurred. This creates an audit trail used for monitoring, troubleshooting, and investigating security incidents. For example, operating systems and applications routinely write entries to log files to show when services started, when errors happened, or when authentication events occurred. The other terms don’t fit as a file of recorded activities: a MIB is a data structure used by SNMP to describe managed objects, not a log of events; “local” is not a file type; malware refers to malicious software, not a record-keeping file.