Multiple choice

This part of operating system manages the essential peripherals, such as the keyboard, screen, disk drives, and parallel and serial ports ____.

  1. basic input/output system

  2. secondary input/output system

  3. peripheral input/output system

  4. marginal input/output system

  5. None of these

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A Correct answer
Explanation

The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is firmware used to perform hardware initialization during the booting process and provides runtime services for operating systems and programs to interact with peripherals.