Q. Which option can be used explicitly to reduce the priority of any process.

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Q. Which command is used for premature termination of a process?

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Q. What is a job?

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Q. Which of the following command is used to suspend a job?

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Q. Which command will push the current foreground job to the background?

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

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Q. We can list the jobs queued using at command by using ____ option.

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Q. UNIX supports preemptive multitasking.

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Q. The collection of memory locations that the process can access is called _______

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Q. The virtual address space consists of ____ segments.

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Q. The segment representing the constants, globals and static variables is called:

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Q. The stack stores the _______

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Q. The attributes of every process are stored in ____

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Q. The entire process life cycle is built around ___ system calls.

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Q. Which of the following system call is used for replicating a process?

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Q. Which of the following functions is used for handling environment variables of a process?

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Q. A process can be terminated using the exit or _exit system call.

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Q. Both exit and _exit system call share an identical syntax.

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Q. The parent process picks up the exit status of a child using ___ system call.

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Q. Which of the following system call is more powerful (in waiting mechanism) than wait system call?

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