The EDP Era

question 20

Multiple Choice

The EDP era

• A) Began in the early 1980s with the personal computer
• B) Began in the 1960s when large organizations first purchased a centralized mainframe or minicomputer.
• C) Began in the 1990s when many organizations sought to regain control of the IT deparment and hired a Chief Data Processing Officer
• D) Is credited to the U.S. Navy when it used a project management approach to manage the Polaris missile project.
• E) Began in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a defense project called ARPANET that eventually led to the Internet.

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