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A company secretary notes that the firm's payroll package, which is bought as a ready-made product and used for calculating salaries, falls under which category of software?
A ready-made payroll package is application software because it is built to carry out a specific user task, namely salary computation. System software, by contrast, manages hardware and provides a platform for other programs to run.
- ASystem software
- BApplication softwareCorrect
- CFirmware
- DUtility driver
Explanation
Software designed to perform specific user tasks such as payroll, accounting or word processing is application software. System software manages hardware and provides a platform, such as an operating system. Firmware is embedded in hardware, and a driver lets the OS talk to a device.
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