MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the purpose of peripheral management (as a part of the Operating System)?
A
Provides a method to communicate with the system
B
Manages your programs
C
Allows the Operating System to manage the hardware devices
D
Allows users to have different accounts
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Peripheral Device Management protects your business through effective device management and lockdown of unauthorized devices, such as USB drives, cell phones, portable hard drives, and music players: Block use of prohibited external devices. Understand and manage all removable devices on your network.

Detailed explanation-2: -Operating systems are responsible for ‘ peripheral management ‘ this means ….. They communicate and control devices such as mice, keyboards, monitors and printers. This can include sending print jobs to the printer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Input/output devices management To operate a peripheral, the operating system uses a program called a device driver . Device drivers contain instructions on how to control a device. Each connected device has its own driver. any device can be used with the operating system, as long as a driver is available for it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Device management controls peripheral devices by sending them commands in their proprietary machine language. The software routine that deals with each device is a “driver, ” and the OS requires drivers for each of the peripherals attached to the computer.

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