The practice of turning over responsibility of some or all of an organization's information systems applications and operations to an outside firm is referred to as:
A) realignment.
B) downsizing.
C) outsourcing.
D) time sharing.
E) system reassignment and deployment.

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C) Outsourcing is defined as the turning over responsibility for IS functions to an outside firm. The only other choice that is even remotely close is time sharing, the idea that one would share resources (such as a mainframe) with another organization.

The Practice of Turning Over Responsibility of Some or All