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Operating System MCQ and Answers – Process Creation
1. Cascading termination refers to the termination of all child processes if the parent process terminates ______
a) Normally
b) Abnormally
c) Normally or abnormally
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: c
2. 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
3. In UNIX, each process is identified by its __________
a) Process Control Block
b) Device Queue
c) Process Identifier
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: c
4. 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
5. 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
Answer: a
6. 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
7. 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
8. A parent process calling _____ system call will be suspended until children processes terminate.
a) wait
b) fork
c) exit
d) exec
Answer: a