MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Detailed explanation-1: -A computing platform or digital platform is an environment in which a piece of software is executed. It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser and associated application programming interfaces, or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed with it.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is the difference between Platform and Environment? Computer platform is a software or hardware architecture that acts as the foundation of a computer system, while the environment means the collective configuration of both software and hardware of a computer system.

Detailed explanation-3: -A software platform is usually an operating system that runs a device, such as your laptop or your phone. For example, the operating system of your cell phone is the platform on which third-party developers build apps that you can use on the phone. Some software applications effectively operate as platforms.

Detailed explanation-4: -The operating system acts as an interface between the computer and the user and also between the computer and the application. So in order to have a functional device, you need hardware and an operating system together to make a usable computer platform for a program to run on.