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System Design Quiz Practice
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Question 1 of 1
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System Design
Why is 'the whole application is either CP or AP' considered a design mistake?
A
It isn't a mistake — a single choice is always correct
B
Different data within the same product genuinely has different staleness tolerance, so treating CAP as one blanket, application-wide decision usually leaves at least one subsystem with the wrong tradeoff for its actual requirements
C
CAP theorem only applies to a single database table at a time
D
Applications are technically incapable of mixing CP and AP subsystems
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