A ____ processing strategy is being used when data processing activities are conducted at various remote locations without communication between the locations.

a.
centralized

b.
WAN-based

c.
distributed

d.
decentralized

d.
decentralized
Decentralized processing allows processing to take place all around a network without dependencies among those nodes; distributed processing allows communication and dependencies among the nodes, whereas centralized processing has all processing taking place at a single, generally “central” location. A WAN is a kind of network upon which all of these strategies could take place.

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