Hardware-Software Communication Quiz

What is the process or processes by which hardware and software communicate?

What are the parts involved in hardware and software communication?

 the instructions that control what a computer does; computer programs.

• Hardware

• Software

• Data

• Memory address

the physical and electronic parts of a computer, rather than the instructions it follows.

• Hardware

• Software

• Data

• File

information, especially facts or numbers, collected to be examined and considered and used to help decision-making, or information in an electronic form that can be stored and used by a computer.

• Hardware

• Software

• Data

• Input/output address

information stored on a computer as one unit with one name.

• Hardware

• Software

• Data

• File

a part of a computer that reads information on a hard disk, or a separate device that can be connected to a computer in order to do this.

• Key

• Keyboard

• Hard drive

• Resource

a useful or valuable possession or quality

• Key

• Keyboard

• Hard drive

• Resource

a set of computer equipment and programs used together for a particular purpose.

• Interrupt request number (IRQ)

• System

• Hard drive

• Resource

a reference to a specific memory location used at various levels by software and hardware.

• Interrupt request number (IRQ)

• Direct memory access

• Memory address

• Resource