MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following is the function for compression tool?
A
To shrink the size of the file
B
To manage the files in folder
C
Perform file management related task
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The compress command compresses data, using adaptive Lempel-Zev coding to reduce the size of files.

Detailed explanation-2: -How File Compression Works: Lossy Compression. Lossy compression reduces file size by removing unnecessary bits of information. It’s most common in image, video, and audio formats, where a perfect representation of the source media isn’t necessary.

Detailed explanation-3: -Compression Tools are a type of utility software. Furthermore, these tools help us to compress and decompress files. An important part of a computer is storage space, it is very important to maintain this storage. Therefore, we use compression tools to compress big files and decrease their size.

Detailed explanation-4: -The correct answer is option 1 i.e Win Zip. WinZip is a compressor tool for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. WinZip allows users to compress files and to open compressed files in .

Detailed explanation-5: -A compression algorithm is used to find and index repeated words or patterns (or sections of words) within the data. Wherever they occur in the data, the indexed words/patterns are replaced with numerical values. The index will need to be stored with the data to allow decompression with no loss of data.

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