You are a project manager for a growing dairy farm. They offer their organic dairy products regionally and are expanding their operations to the West Coast. They're in the process of purchasing and leasing dairy farms to get operations under way. You are in charge of the network operations part of this project. An important deadline is approaching that depends on the successful completion of the testing phase. You've detected some problems with your hardware in the testing phase and discover that the hardware is not compatible with other network equipment. You take corrective action and exchange the hardware for more compatible equipment. Which of the following is true?
A. This is not a corrective action involves human resources, not project resources.
B. Corrective action is taken here to make sure the future project outcomes are aligned with the project plan.
C. Corrective action is not necessary in this case as the future project outcomes aren't affected.
D. Corrective action serves as the change request to authorize exchanging the equipment.


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