Which systemic data risk increased as the Inca Empire expanded its reliance on quipu?

💡 Explanation

Data losses increased when reliance on limited 'quipu' records expanded because centralized backup was absent through the empire. The mechanism of Single Point of Failure resulted in data corruption when a single quipu was destroyed, because no central repository existed for replication of the records, rather than redundancy.

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