Question

What is Utility Program?

Answer 1

Utility Program : Utility programmes (also known as utilities) are a set of programmes, which help users in system maintenance tasks and in performing tasks of routine nature. Some of the tasks commonly performed by utility programmes include formatting of hard disks or floppy disks, taking backup of files, stored on hard disk on to a tape or floppy disk, sorting of the records stored in a file a particular order based on some key field(s), etc.