Process Creation

Restricting the child process to a subset of the parent's resources prevents any process from : a) overloading the system by using a lot of secondary storage b) under-loading the system by very less CPU utilization c) overloading the system by creating a lot of sub-processes d) crashing the system by utilizing multiple resources

C

In UNIX, the return value for the fork system call is _____ for the child process and _____ for the parent process. a) A Negative integer, Zero b) Zero, A Negative integer c) Zero, A nonzero integer d) A nonzero integer, Zero

C

In UNIX, each process is identified by its : a) Process Control Block b) Device Queue c) Process Identifier d) None of these

C

A parent process calling _____ system call will be suspended until children processes terminate. a) wait b) fork c) exit d) exec

A

Cascading termination refers to termination of all child processes before the parent terminates ______. a) Normally b) Abnormally c) Normally or abnormally d) None of these

A

The child process can : (choose two) a) be a duplicate of the parent process b) never be a duplicate of the parent process c) have another program loaded into it d) never have another program loaded into it

A & C

The child process completes execution, but the parent keeps executing, then the child process is known as: a) Orphan b) Zombie c) Body d) Dead

B - Enters the terminated state

With ................ only one process can execute at a time; meanwhile all other process are waiting for the processor. With .............. more than one process can be running simultaneously each on a different processor. a) Multiprocessing, Multiprogramming b) Multiprogramming, Uniprocessing c) Multiprogramming, Multiprocessing d) Uniprogramming, Multiprocessing

D