Companies may move from licensing or joint venture strategies to ownership in order to achieve faster expansion in a market, greater control, and/or higher profits

Which of the following variables represents the overachievement of a given priority goal?

a. Functional variables b. Positive deviational variables c. Negative deviational variables d. Priority variables e. Any of the above can represent the underachievement of a priority goal.

When distributed databases create copies of the database on different servers, this is known as:

A) replication. B) partitioning. C) disbursing. D) distributed two-phase locking. E) None of the above