MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Detailed explanation-1: -A soft copy (sometimes spelled “softcopy") is an electronic copy (or e-copy) of some type of data, such as a file viewed on a computer’s display or transmitted as an email attachment. Such material, when printed, is referred to as a hard copy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Output generated by output device classified into two types: 1) Soft-copy output – Output which is stored in computer memory and displayed on screen in digital and electronic form of material and modified easily. 2) Hard-copy output – Output is a physical form of material which is produced on a paper.

Detailed explanation-3: -Soft copy refers to the digital document file or electronic version of a document that is not printed on paper. In soft copy the output is present in the USB drives and computers etc and sometimes it is referred as temporary copy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: The output that is displayed on the computer’s monitor is considered a soft copy.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.