The process of feeding instructions into the computer system is called

Data moves through a computer system in stages: it must first enter the system, then be processed, then possibly be stored, and finally results are produced for the user. Each of these stages has its own specific name.

Feeding instructions or data into a computer system, through devices like a keyboard, mouse, scanner, or microphone, is called inputting. This is the very first stage of the data-processing cycle, before the computer's processor works on that data.

"Processing" is what happens after the data has entered the system, when the CPU manipulates it according to instructions. "Outputting" is the final stage, presenting results to the user through a screen, printer, or speaker. "Accessing" is a general term for retrieving or reaching data or a system, not specifically the act of feeding new data or instructions in.

Learn the input-process-output cycle as a sequence, and match each keyword in a question to its correct stage rather than treating the terms as interchangeable.