Unix Processes Management MCQs

Processes Management MCQs : This section focuses on "Processes Management" in unix. These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) should be practiced to improve the unix skills required for various interviews (campus interviews, walk-in interviews, company interviews), placements, entrance exams and other competitive examinations.

1. Each process in the system has a unique ________.

A. pidentity
B. processidentity
C. pid
D. proid

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2. When you start a process (run a command), how many ways you can run it?

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

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3. By default, every process that you start runs in the __________.

A. Foreground
B. Background
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

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4. A process is an instance of _______ program.

A. waiting
B. executing
C. terminated
D. halted

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5. Which data structure is used to store information about a process?

A. process control block
B. stack
C. queue
D. program control block

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6. Which of the following command doesn't create a process?

A. pwd
B. fork
C. cd
D. Both A and C

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7. ____ command will bring the background jobs to the foreground.

A. bg
B. gd
C. fg
D. kill

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8. Which command is used to list the status of jobs?

A. JOBS
B. jobs
C. fg
D. bg

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9. What is a daemon?

A. process whose parent has died
B. process who has completed its execution but still has an entry in the process table
C. process which is running infinitely
D. process which runs automatically without any user interaction

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10. What is cron?

A. a simple process
B. an orphan process
C. a daemon
D. a zombie process

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