ITPEC IP April 2019 Question 13
ITPEC IP April 2019 — Question 13 of 100
A device driver is software that lets the operating system control and communicate with a connected peripheral. It translates general OS requests into commands understood by hardware such as a printer, display adapter, or storage device.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- (b) describes firmware such as BIOS or UEFI that performs startup initialization
- (c) describes a browser plug-in or similar browser extension component
- (d) describes an archiver that packages and restores files
Key rule: A driver provides the software interface between an operating system and a particular hardware device.
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