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RRB NTPC - 2025
Computer Awareness

A computer cannot open a printer without a driver. This driver is an example of a/an:

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System software

A device driver is a program that lets the operating system communicate with and control a piece of hardware, such as a printer.

Because it works in the background to run and manage the hardware rather than performing a task for the user directly, a driver is classified as system software (a type of utility/system program), not application software.

A document file is data, an input device is hardware, and a game is application software, so none of those describe a driver.

Hence, a printer driver is an example of system software.

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