FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS

COMPUTER OUTPUT DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Monitors provides users with output in
A
hard copy form
B
soft copy form
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Monitor is an output device which is used for producing soft-copy output. It is also known as VDU i.e. Visual Display Unit. It forms images from tiny dots, called pixels that are arranged in a rectangular form. LCD contains liquid crystals in between two plates of the screen.

Detailed explanation-2: -The output shown on the computer monitor is called a soft copy. A soft copy is a legible piece of data that is not printed and is only stored in the computer system. Hence, when the operations are performed on a computer with the help of software, the output that is displayed on the monitor is the soft copy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The correct answer is Monitor. Softcopy output is an output that is not produced on paper or some materials which can not be touched or carried for being shown to others. They are temporary in nature and vanish after use. Output display by a monitor is a softcopy output.

Detailed explanation-4: -A few examples of soft copies include XLX files, PDF files, Word documents, Presentation files, Scanned copies of a hard copy document.

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