CompTIA ITF+ Practice Test: Prep Guide & Practice Questions

The employee used a client-server application architecture. This involves a client, in this case the spreadsheet software, connecting to a remote server, the database, to retrieve and manipulate data. A peer-to-peer application architecture would involve all devices on a network being equal and connected to each other, which does not match the scenario. A centralized application architecture would have all data and processing on a single, central server, rather than using a remote database. A cloud-based application architecture would involve using web-based applications, rather than a local spreadsheet software, to access and manipulate data stored on remote servers.