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31.

Which of the following does not interrupt a running process?

A

A device

B

Timer

C

Scheduler process

D

Power failure

Correct Answer: C

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32.

Which process can be affected by other processes executing in the system?

A

cooperating process

B

child process

C

parent process

D

init process

Correct Answer: A

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33.

A parent process calling _____ system call will be suspended until children processes terminate.

A

wait

B

fork

C

exit

D

exec

Correct Answer: A

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34.

Cascading termination refers to termination of all child processes before the parent terminates ______

A

Normally

B

Abnormally

C

Normally or abnormally

D

None of the mentioned

Correct Answer: A

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35.

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

Correct Answer: D

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36.

In UNIX, each process is identified by its __________

A

Process Control Block

B

Device Queue

C

Process Identifier

D

None of the mentioned

Correct Answer: C

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37.

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

Correct Answer: C

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38.

The child process can __________

A

be a duplicate of the parent process

B

never be a duplicate of the parent process

C

cannot have another program loaded into it

D

never have another program loaded into it

Correct Answer: A

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39.

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

Correct Answer: B

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40.

What is Inter process communication?

A

allows processes to communicate and synchronize their actions when using the same address space

B

allows processes to communicate and synchronize their actions without using the same address space

C

allows the processes to only synchronize their actions without communication

D

none of the mentioned

Correct Answer: B

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