The __________ communicates directly with hardware.

Which category of risk has the highest probability of occurrence?

A. user error B. hardware failure C. system software failure D. environmental events

Case-Based Critical Thinking QuestionsCase 17-1Simon is learning about the inner workings of his computer. Before now, he had never thought about what was going on behind the scenes of his computer. Simon has a friend that is a computer programmer. Until now, he thought that she input data in plain English. However, after reading this chapter, he knows that ____.

A. his friend inputs data using only numbers to represent the words that she wants to type B. her PC works with data that has been converted into code and then into electrical signals C. his friend writes binary code to create computer programs before inputting data D. isn't a computer programmer because computers write their own programs