Certified Data Management Professional – Fundamentals (CDMP) — Question 46

An application uses a single service account for all database access. One of the risks of this approach is:

Answer options

• A. The ability to trace who made changes to the data
• B. It constrains the application from running parallel processes
• C. The data becomes out of order
• D. The application freezes more often
• E. The database runs out of threads

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because using a single service account makes it difficult to identify individual users who made specific changes, which undermines accountability. Options B, C, D, and E do not directly relate to the risk of traceability in data changes when a single service account is utilized.