While documenting a Level-1 data flow diagram for an e-commerce platform, you notice a data-flow arrow labeled "Completed Orders" drawn directly from the "Orders Warehouse" data store to the "Shipping Carrier" external entity. Under generally accepted data-flow diagram rules, what revision should be made so that this portion of the diagram is valid?
Change the Orders Warehouse symbol from a data store to an external entity so the flow becomes entity-to-entity.
Keep the existing symbols but replace the single-headed arrow with a double-headed arrow to indicate bidirectional communication.
Insert an intermediate process (for example, "Prepare shipping manifest") between the Orders Warehouse data store and the Shipping Carrier external entity.
Remove the data-flow from the diagram and capture the shipment hand-off in supplemental documentation instead.
Data-flow diagram conventions state that data stores cannot exchange data with external entities without going through a process. The correct fix is to add an intermediate process-such as "Prepare shipping manifest" or "Transmit shipping details"-that reads the data from the Orders Warehouse and then sends it to the Shipping Carrier. Converting the data store to an external entity, changing the arrow style, or removing the flow altogether would not resolve the violation of the rule that requires data to pass through a process when moving between a store and an external party.
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