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  • What is a zombie?


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  • When a program forks and the child finishes before the parent, the kernel still keeps some of its information about the child in case the parent might need it ? for example, the parent may need to check the child?s exit status To be able to get this information, the parent calls `wait()?; In the interval between the child terminating and the parent calling `wait()?, the child is said to be a `zombie? (If you do `ps?, the child will have a `Z? in its status field to indicate this) 


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    • 1. getppid() system call is used to bias the existing priority of a process

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    • A. TRUE
    • B. FALSE
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    • 2. What is a shell?
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    • 3. What is a drawback of MVT?
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    • 4. What is fragmentation? Different types of fragmentation?
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    • 5. What is logical and physical addresses space?
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    • 6. The PS command prints the process status for only some of the running processes.

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    • A. TRUE
    • B. FALSE
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    • 7. Which among the following are the components of windows registry?

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    • A. Keys
    • B. SubKeys
    • C. Values
    • D. All the above
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    • 8. Which command displays the present workig directory in UNIX?

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    • A. $who
    • B. $pwd
    • C. $who are you
    • D. None
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    • 9. Explain the concept of Reentrancy?
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    • 10. What is thrashing?
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