Darren Pepper Works for a Large Medical Clinic

Multiple Choice

Darren Pepper works for a large medical clinic.They are running out of five-digit patient numbers and they want to expand the patient number to seven digits.It will cost a great deal of money to make this switch because three of the clinic's programs will no longer work with this new number of digits in the patient number.The clinic is using a traditional file system.This is an example of ________.

A) program-data dependence
B) lack of flexibility
C) poor security
D) lack of data sharing and availability