Charles and Irene Are Editors at a Content Development Firm

Multiple Choice

Charles and Irene are editors at a content development firm. Both of them, unknowingly, are working on the same copy of the annual report. Irene finishes editing the report and saves her copy; Charles saves his report an hour after Irene. Charles's report overwrites Irene's, and her changes are lost. This scenario is an example of the ________.

A) lost-update problem
B) crow's-foot paradigm
C) bullwhip effect
D) update query problem
E) bait-and-switch problem