A user reports that a program appears frozen. The administrator runs ps and sees the process in state 'D'. What does this state indicate, and what is the most likely cause?

Stopped; the process was paused by a signal and can be continued.

Uninterruptible sleep; the process is waiting for I/O and cannot be killed normally.

Interruptible sleep; the process is waiting for user input and can be resumed.

Zombie; the process has terminated but its parent hasn't reaped it.

A process is in the 'Z' state according to ps. The administrator wants to remove it from the process table. What is the correct action?

Wait for the zombie to exit on its own.

Kill the parent process so init can reap the zombie.

Use renice to change its priority.

A developer needs to run a one-time database cleanup script at 3:00 PM today. The script is /opt/scripts/cleanup.sh. The system uses the at daemon. Which command schedules this job correctly?

crontab -e; echo '/opt/scripts/cleanup.sh' | at 3pm

at -f /opt/scripts/cleanup.sh 3pm

echo '/opt/scripts/cleanup.sh' | at 3pm

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6application · medium
A user reports that a program appears frozen. The administrator runs ps and sees the process in state 'D'. What does this state indicate, and what is the most likely cause?
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7application · easy
A user schedules a job with at for 10:00 AM. The user wants to see the job ID to verify it was scheduled. Which command displays the job ID?
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8application · medium
A process is in the 'Z' state according to ps. The administrator wants to remove it from the process table. What is the correct action?
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9application · medium
A developer needs to run a one-time database cleanup script at 3:00 PM today. The script is /opt/scripts/cleanup.sh. The system uses the at daemon. Which command schedules this job correctly?
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10foundation · easy
Which command is commonly used to send a signal to a process, such as to terminate it?
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Questions 6–10

A user reports that a program appears frozen. The administrator runs ps and sees the process in state 'D'. What does this state indicate, and what is the most likely cause?

A user schedules a job with at for 10:00 AM. The user wants to see the job ID to verify it was scheduled. Which command displays the job ID?

A process is in the 'Z' state according to ps. The administrator wants to remove it from the process table. What is the correct action?

A developer needs to run a one-time database cleanup script at 3:00 PM today. The script is /opt/scripts/cleanup.sh. The system uses the at daemon. Which command schedules this job correctly?

Which command is commonly used to send a signal to a process, such as to terminate it?

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