PMP Practice Question: Business Environment — Predictive, Hard
Your organization has been awarded a predictive project to implement a financial system for a client in a country with strict data sovereignty laws. The project plan, developed six months ago, specified using your company's standard cloud infrastructure hosted in your home country. Two months into the eight-month project, the client's government issues new guidance clarifying that all financial data must be processed and stored within national borders with no exceptions. Your cloud provider has no data centers in the client's country and establishing one would take 14 months. The client will not grant an extension beyond 60 days. Senior management is considering proceeding with the original plan and addressing compliance 'later.' What should you do?
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