Question 11 : The child process completes execution,but the parent keeps executing, then the child process is known as :
1. Orphan
2. Zombie
3. Body
4. Dead
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Question 12 : The child process can :
1. be a duplicate of the parent process
2. never be a duplicate of the parent process
3. cannot have another program loaded into it
4. never have another program loaded into it
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Question 13 : In UNIX, the return value for the fork system call is _____ for the child process and _____ for the parent process.
1. A Negative integer, Zero
2. Zero, A Negative integer
3. Zero, A nonzero integer
4. A nonzero integer, Zero
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Question 14 : In UNIX, each process is identified by its :
1. Process Control Block
2. Device Queue
3. Process Identifier
4. None of the the mentioned
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Question 15 : 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.
1. Multiprocessing, Multiprogramming
2. Multiprogramming, Uniprocessing
3. Multiprogramming, Multiprocessing
4. Uniprogramming, Multiprocessing
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Question 16 : Cascading termination refers to termination of all child processes before the parent terminates ______
1. Normally
2. Abnormally
3. Normally or abnormally
4. None of the mentioned
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Question 17 : A parent process calling _____ system call will be suspended until children processes terminate.
1. wait
2. fork
3. exit
4. exec
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Question 18 : To enable a process to wait within the monitor,
1. a condition variable must be declared as condition
2. condition variables must be used as boolean objects
3. semaphore must be used
4. all of the mentioned
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Question 19 : A monitor is a module that encapsulates
1. shared data structures
2. procedures that operate on shared data structure
3. synchronization between concurrent procedure invocation
4. all of the mentioned
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Question 20 : Process synchronization can be done on
1. hardware level
2. software level
3. both hardware and software level
4. none of the mentioned
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