Mitch is a newly hired manager for a company that outsources its application development. Which of the following best describes a practice that he should put into place?

A.
Debugging

B.
Prototyping

C.
Due diligence

D.
Software escrow

Explanation:
If a company pays another company to develop software for it, it should have some type of software escrow in place for protection. In a software escrow, a third party keeps a copy of the source code, and possibly other materials, which it will release to the customer only if specific circumstances arise, mainly if the vendor who developed the code goes out of business or for some reason is not meeting its obligations and responsibilities. This procedure protects the customer, because the customer pays the vendor to develop software code for it, and if the vendor goes out of business, the customer otherwise would no longer have access to the actual code. This means the customer code could never be updated or maintained properly