FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS

COMPUTER OUTPUT DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
True or False? A monitor is an output device.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Monitors, commonly called as Visual Display Unit (VDU), are the main output device of a computer. The output which we get on a monitor is called soft copy output. FPD CRT There are two kinds of viewing screen used for monitors. Printer is an output device, which is used to print information on paper.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -A speaker is an output device that produces sound through an oscillating transducer called a driver. The equivalent input device is a microphone.

Detailed explanation-4: -Monitor is NOT an Input device. The device which provides any piece of information from a computer into human-readable form is known as the Output device. Monitor, Speakers, Headphones etc are examples of Output devices.

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