​Distributing Parts of an Information System Across Many Computer Systems

question 5

Multiple Choice

​Distributing parts of an information system across many computer systems and locations is called ____.

• A) ​distributed computing
• B) ​local computing
• C) ​parallel computing
• D) ​linear computing

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