Question

The process of dismantling and inspecting a competitor's new or revised product for the purpose of gleaning design ideas is called:

A. reverse engineering.
B. disassembly.
C. design by imitation.
D. product analysis.
E. benchmarking.

Answer 1

REVERSE ENGINEERING

Step-by-step explanation:

Reverse engineering, sometimes named backward engineering, is the method of deconstruction of a person-made product to discover its structures, layout, or even to remove information from either the item; comparable to science research, the first and only distinction is that scientific investigation is all about a natural event.

Thus, from the above we can conclude that the correct option is A.