Question 1

Describe the system cron table. How it is organized, and what information may be contained within it?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Describe the system cron table. How it...

Question 2

After a process has been started, you can change its priority by using the renice command.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

You can execute ____ main types of Linux commands.

Accepted Answer

A) 2 
B) 3 
C) 4 
D) 5

Question 4

In the output of the ps -l command, the ____ column is the most valuable to systems administrators because it indicates what the process is currently doing.

Accepted Answer

A) process state 
B) process flag 
C) process priority 
D) PID

Question 5

How does the nice value affect process priority? How and why can nice values be altered?

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The answer of How does the nice value affect process...

Question 6

The ____ kill signal terminates a process by taking the process information in memory and saving it to a file called core on the hard disk in the current working directory.

Accepted Answer

A) SIGINT 
B) SIGQUIT 
C) SIGKILL 
D) SIGTERM

Question 7

There are ____ different kill signals that the kill command can send to a certain process.

Accepted Answer

A) 16 
B) 32 
C) 64 
D) 128

Question 8

The ____ kill signal stops a process then restarts it with the same PID.

Accepted Answer

A) SIGINT 
B) SIGQUIT 
C) SIGHUP 
D) SIGTERM

Question 9

The killall command uses the PID to kill a process.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Match between columns
                        Premises: Daemon used to schedule a command to execute once in the future.
A process's identifier that allows the kernel to identify it uniquely.
The location of system cron tables.
Directory storing the shell environment and scheduled commands.
Identifies the process that started another process.
The location of user cron tables.
Ignoring a kill signal.
Daemon used to schedule a command to execute repeatedly in the future.
An executable file on the hard disk that can be run when you execute it.

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The Answer of at daemon and cron daemon and /var/spool/cron is...

Question 11

To create or edit a user cron table, you can use the ____ option to the crontab command.

Accepted Answer

A) -u 
B) -c 
C) -f 
D) -e

Question 12

The ____ field in a cron table contains the absolute pathname to the command to be executed.

Accepted Answer

A) first 
B) second 
C) fifth 
D) sixth

Exam 10: Managing Linux Processes