As a first step toward replacing a corporate customer database, a company attempts to limit access to customer services via an official Customer entity service. However, some time later it is discovered that several applications have been bypassing the Customer service in order to directly access the customer database. As a result, these applications exhibit which negative form of coupling? Select the correct answer.
A) Contract-to-Implementation
B) Consumer-to-Implementation
C) Consumer-to-Contract
D) Contract-to-Technology

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The applications are directly accessing the customer database, which means they are tightly coupled to the implementation details of the database, bypassing the intended service layer. This is an example of Consumer-to-Implementation coupling.

As a First Step Toward Replacing a Corporate Customer Database