General Software Terms
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the general name given to all the programs that computer use to perform different tasks.
What is Software?
100
allows you to make a duplicate copy of every file on your hard disk
What is Backup
100
designed to respond to an event within predetermined time
What is Real-Time?
100
A general-purpose software which has been modifie to bette meet the needs of an individual or organisation
What is Customized Software
200
Carries out speciic tasks or solve particular problems
What is Appplication Software?
200
finds fragmented files and organises them back in a contiguous manner
What is File defragmented?
200
set of programs that governs the operation of a computer
What is Operating system?
200
Software writte to meet the specific need of a company or an organisation
What is Custom- Written Software?
300
software that is not written for any specific business or organisation but can be used to suit anyone's specific needs.
What is General-purpose Software?
300
scans a hard disk or floppy disk for bad sectors
What is Disk Repair?
300
makes users in a multi-access environment
What is time-sharing?
300
manages and supports resources and operation of a computer system
What is System Software?
400
a set of relatd, specialised programs combined in a unified package that allows data to be transferred easily.
What is Integrated Software?
400
translates a program written by a programmer into machine language
What is Language translators?
400
where data is collected together in a sequenced batch queue before processing starts
What is Batch-processing?
400
set of programs the governs the operation of a computer
What is Operating System?
500
Software that is written for a specific task
What is Specialised Software?
500
special type of software used o remove or inactivate know viruses from a computer's hard disk
What is Anti-Virus Software?
500
known as transaction processing or pseudo real-time processing
What is online processing?
500
short programs written to auomate several steps in software
What is Macros?
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