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What Is Word Processing Software?

Difficulty: Easy

Word processing software is used to create and edit text and images to produce documents that can be saved electronically and printed out.

What Is Spreadsheet Software?

Difficulty: Easy

Spreadsheet software is used to organise data into grids of rows and columns. It assigns a letter to each column.

What Is Machine Learning?

Difficulty: Medium

Machine learning is a type of AI that focuses on algorithms that can learn and adapt from historical data without explicitly being instructed.

What Is Computer Software?

Difficulty: Easy

Computer software refers to the programs and applications that run on a computer in order for it to be used. Software is intangible with no physical element.

What Is Plug and Play?

Difficulty: Medium

Plug and play (PnP) is a technology that allows peripheral devices to be configured and used without the need to manually install drivers or configure device settings.

What Is Safe Mode?

Difficulty: Medium

Safe Mode starts an operating system in a limited state and only loads the necessary files required for the computer to boot.

What Is A Plugin?

Difficulty: Medium

A plugin is a software component that extends the functionality or adds additional features to another program.

What Is Data Integrity?

Difficulty: Medium

Data integrity refers to maintaining the accuracy, consistency, and completeness of data throughout its lifecycle.

What Is SaaS?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Software As A Service. SaaS is a distribution model of cloud computing that hosts software applications, called web services.

What Is MICR?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. MICR, pronounced "mick-er", is a character recognition technology developed in the late 1950s used to recognise characters with special ink and characters.

What Is The Registry?

Difficulty: Medium

The registry is a hierarchical database of settings, user preferences, operating system configurations, information, options, and software and hardware values used by Microsoft Windows.

What Is An Activation Key?

Difficulty: Medium

An activation key, also known as a licence key, a product key, or a software key, is a unique string of alphanumeric characters often separated by hyphens, used to register a software application.

What Is Memory Management?

Difficulty: Medium

Memory management refers to the ways that operating systems manage memory. Operating systems help to manage memory (RAM) on an operating system by deciding how much RAM each process.

What Is Commercial Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Commercial software, sometimes known as payware, is a type of software that requires payment before it can be used. After payment, users can use all the features of the software without any restrictions.

What Is Freeware?

Difficulty: Medium

Freeware is a type of software that is made available to other users free of charge. It allows users to use it for as long as they want to without having to pay.

What Is Productivity Software?

Difficulty: Easy

Productivity software is a type of software that is designed to allow users to produce things. It is most often used for businesses to allow tasks to be completed more efficiently.

What Is A File Extension?

Difficulty: Medium

A file extension, also known as a file suffix, or a filename extension, is an ending of a file used to identify the file type.

What Is User Experience?

Difficulty: Easy

User experience (UX) is the overall feeling a user gets when using a software program, website, web-based application, or hardware device.

What Is A QR Code?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for a Quick Response code. A QR code is a type of barcode that consists of a matrix of black and white squares, used to store URLs and other data.

What Is PDF?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Portable Document Format. PDF is a universal file format used to save and display electronic documents, like word processing documents, presentations...

What Is A Software Suite?

Difficulty: Medium

A software suite, also known as an application suite, or a productivity suite, is a collection of two or more computer programs of similar functionality and user interfaces.

What Is Manual Data Processing?

Difficulty: Medium

Manual data processing is a type of data processing that entirely relies on an individual manually entering the data into a system without any automated systems.

What Is Automated Data Processing?

Difficulty: Medium

Automated data processing, also known as electronic data processing, is a type of data processing that relies on automated systems to handle and process the data with little user interaction.

What Is MP3?

Difficulty: Medium

MP3 is a widely used compressed file format that can store high-quality audio. It can also be used to store other data, including metadata, the song title, artist name, album title, and year.

What Is A Registry Cleaner?

Difficulty: Medium

A registry cleaner is a type of third-party utility software used to scan and remove any unneeded or outdated registry entries that the computer no longer uses.

What Is Abandonware?

Difficulty: Medium

Abandonware is a type of software that is no longer maintained by its owner. Since it is no longer maintained, no official support is available and...

What Is Trialware?

Difficulty: Medium

Trialware, also known as demoware, is a type of proprietary software that allows the user to use it free of charge for a limited period of time.

What Is Donationware?

Difficulty: Medium

Donationware, also known as donateware, is a type of software that is free to use, but encourages end users to support the creators or a third-party beneficiary by making a donation.

What Is Utility Software?

Difficulty: Easy

Utility software is a type of software specifically designed to help configure, manage, optimise, and maintain a computer.

What Is A Disk Defragmenter?

Difficulty: Medium

A disk defragmenter is a software utility that analyses the hard disk and regroups any data so that data related to the same file is in the same location on the hard disk drive.