IBPS IT SO-Operating system-Process Creation

Process Creation

1) 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

Answer: c
Explanation: None.

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

Answer: a
Explanation: None.

3) 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

Answer: a
Explanation: None.

4) 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

Answer: d
Explanation: None.

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

Answer: c
Explanation: None.

6) 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

Answer: c
Explanation: None.

7) 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

Answer: a and c
Explanation: None.

8) 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

Answer: b
Explanation: None.