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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Q. If the child dies first but the entry of that child in the process table is still present, then that process is called ____

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Q. Every process belongs to a process group.

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Q. ____ exec is responsible for executing programs on a UNIX system.

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Q. Which of the following system call is used for duplicating file descriptor?

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Q. We can also duplicate the file descriptor using ___

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Q. Which of the following system call is preferred over dup and dup2 for replicating file descriptor?

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Q. Which of the following system call is used for inter-process communication?

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