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Which of the following is a set of instructions that directs a computer's hardware to perform a task?
Which of the following is a set of instructions that directs a computer's hardware to perform a task?
- Program (correct)
- System software
- Application software
- Network software
What type of software controls peripherals such as monitors, printers, and storage devices?
What type of software controls peripherals such as monitors, printers, and storage devices?
- Application software
- Hardware
- System software (correct)
- Network software
What are the three main categories of software?
What are the three main categories of software?
- Hardware, software, and network
- Programs, procedures, and routines
- System software, application software, and network software (correct)
- Operating system, word processor, and spreadsheet
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- Software are instructions that tell a computer what to do.
- It comprises programs, procedures, and routines associated with computer operation.
- Software is different from hardware, which are physical components of a computer system.
- A set of instructions that directs a computer's hardware to perform a task is called a program.
- System software controls a computer's internal functioning through an operating system.
- System software also controls peripherals such as monitors, printers, and storage devices.
- Application software directs the computer to execute commands given by the user.
- Application software includes word processors, spreadsheets, database management, inventory and payroll programs, and many other "applications."
- Network software coordinates communication between computers linked in a network.
- There are three main categories of software: system software, application software, and network software.
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