Critical Thinking Questions Case 12-1 You Have Taken a Temporary

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 12-1 You have taken a temporary position as an IT consultant for a large firm with a variety of database solutions that you and your team are working to consolidate into one enterprise-wide solution. You are currently in the process of gathering information about where things stand with each of the individual database solutions. The CIO has weighed in on the situation and has decided that the risks associated with conversion are too great if there is a chance that the registration system will not work for registering users for the conference. Instead, she is willing to absorb the cost of running the new system in tandem with the old one. What conversion type is a good match for this approach?

• A) parallel
• B) direct
• C) phased
• D) pilot

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