A retail company recently installed data warehousing client
software at geographically diverse sites. Due to time zone
differences between the sites, updates to the warehouse are
not synchronized. Which of the following will be affected
the MOST?
A. Data availability
B. Data completeness
C. Data redundancy
D. Data inaccuracy
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Answer: B
Unsynchronized updates will generally cause data
completeness to be affected, for example sales data from one
site do not match costs incurred in another site.
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