Sometime data are gathered over a period of time and collected into a group before entering them into a computer for processing. What type of processing is it called?

Answer: Option A

Sometime data are gathered over a period of time and collected into a group before entering them into a computer for processing is it called an Interactive processing. Interactive processing means that the person needs to provide the computer with instructions whilst it is doing the processing. For example, imagine that a computer is running a program that takes a set of files from one directory and does some work on each one.