CBSE-IX-Foundation of Information Technology .
03: Computer Software
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- #Foundation of Information Technology - Computer Software
- #Section : AVery Short Answer Type Questions
- Qstn #1What is a computer software?Ans : Computer software is a collection of programs, procedure and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.
- Qstn #2What do you mean by system software?Ans : System software refers to the programs that controls internal computer operations and makes best use of the hardware devices.
- Qstn #3What do you mean by an operating system?Ans : Operating system is a program that acts as an interface between the user and the hardware.
- Qstn #4In order to use the printer, an operating system will need a special type of software. This software is known as what?Ans : In order to use the printer, an operating system will need a device driver software.
- Qstn #5Which language processor converts an HLL program into machine language at once?Ans : Compiler is a language processor which converts whole HLL program into machine language at once which can be understood by the processor.
- Qstn #6Define a utility software.Ans : A utility software is a system software designed to help in the management and tuning of operating systems, computer hardwares and different application softwares.
- Qstn #7Mention some examples of utility software.Ans : Data compression utilities, virus protection utilities and disk defragmentation utilities.
- Qstn #8Which software do you use to keep your system intact from computer viruses?Ans : Antivirus software is used to keep your system intact from computer viruses.
- Qstn #9Why we cannot use a text editor as a picture editing tool?Ans : Text editor is a editing program which does not support the editing of graphical images because it works only on text.
- Qstn #10Describe an application software.Ans : An application software is designed to help the user to perform specific functions.
- Qstn #11Why do we use spreadsheets?Ans : A spreadsheet is specially used to organise data in tables and to analyse the tabulated data in desired manner. It allows you to do a lot of calculations.
- Qstn #12Name the software used to control redundancy from a collection of large amount of data.Ans : A database is a collection of integrated data stored together with controlled redundancy to serve one or more applications in an optimal fashion.
- Qstn #13Name the latest attendance recording devices used in an attendance system.Ans : Biometrics and Access cards.