Computer Software

What is the purpose of application software?

• To make business activities more efficient

• To assist with graphics and multimedia projects

• To support home, personal and educational tasks

• To facilitate communications

Which of the following are the categories of application software?

• Business

• Graphics and Multimedia

• Home/personal/educational

• Communications

____________________ software provide users the right to use, modify and redistribute. It has no copyright restrictions. it is freely downloaded from the internet.

________________________________ is mass produced, copyrighted retail software that meets the needs of a variety of users, not just a single user of company.

• Packaged software

• Custom software

• Shareware

• Freeware

______________________ serves as the interface between the user, the application software, and the computer's hardware.

______________ is a type of system software that allows a user to perform maintenance-type tasks.

The following functions are related to a file manager.

• Displaying a list of files

• Organizing files in folders

• Copying, renaming, deleting, moving and sorting files and folders

• Creating shortcutes

A _____________________ is a program that attempts to locate a file on your computer based on you specify

A disk cleanup utility searches for and removes unnecessary files. Which of the following are NOT the example of unnecessary files?

• Downloaded program files

• Temporary Internet files

• Used program files

• Deleted files

Which of the following are the example of utility programs?

• Disk defragmenter

• Disk cleanup

• Search utility

• Backup and restore utility