As companies grow their data storage needs grow more complex and many small businesses soon grow to need a more manageable approach to local data storage. At Julia's Cookies, it only took a few months before they needed a more robust data storage solution than Excel. Choose from the list below a database solution that a small startup company may use.

O MySQL

O Microsoft Access

O Oracle DBMS

O Microsoft Outlook

Businesses typically have many systems, some internally developed, some purchased, and others acquired. Businesses want these systems to communicate with one another and provide users with easier access to data. There are three systems configurations that consolidate and coordinate data across multiple locations. These three include centralized systems, decentralized systems, and distributed systems. Choose the best definition of a distributed system.

Adistributed system utilizes multiple locations connected to a central site.

A distributed system connects all users to one central location built around a server or cluster of servers that all authorized users can access.

O Adistributed system is like a

decentralized system; however, it goes a step further as it no longer has a central site connecting all the system nodes.

O Adistributed system allows all users to have access to all data depending on their user access privileges, and all users are connected to a central server.

Fill in the blank: "Excel is part of the and can be purchased as a locally installed software or through a SaaS subscription." suite

Google Sheets

O Numbers for Mac

O Microsoft Office

O QuickBooks