An administrator is configuring a newly deployed server and needs to distinguish between the roles of different system and application software classes.
Which of the following tasks is specifically the function of utility software?
Managing the virtual memory swap space when physical RAM becomes fully depleted
Translating assembly language instructions into executable machine code instructions
Compressing historical system logs to optimize available space on a secondary storage drive
Rendering interactive charts and generating monthly financial reports from a database
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