A company has a five-member team in charge of development and maintenance of its information systems.An information system is in place,and the team performs routine maintenance to keep it running smoothly.Which of the following scenarios is an example of adaptive maintenance?
A) Jason notices a faulty component in the system and modifies the component.
B) Justin works on the system to make the user interface more user-friendly.
C) Sara knows that the company is migrating to a new operating environment next month, and makes the appropriate changes to the system.
D) Dylan predicts that the company's old system may fail under new demands, and takes steps to avert it.
E) Kiera detects a fault in the coding, which is hampering system performance, and rectifies it.

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Adaptive maintenance is the modification of a software system to keep it usable in a changing environment. Sara's actions of making changes to the system to ensure it works well after the migration to a new operating environment next month is a perfect example of adaptive maintenance. The other options can be categorized as corrective maintenance (A and E) or perfective maintenance (B and D).

A Company Has a Five-Member Team in Charge of Development