A system administrator notices that a web server has been responding slowly for the past 20 minutes. Running `uptime` shows: `load average: 8.50, 6.20, 3.10` on a 4-core system. The administrator checks `top` and sees no single process using more than 30% CPU. What is the most accurate interpretation of this situation?

The load is decreasing, and the system is recovering from a transient spike that has already passed.

The load is increasing, and the system is likely experiencing a growing backlog of processes competing for CPU.

The load is high but irrelevant because load average only measures CPU-bound processes, not I/O wait.

The load is stable, and the system is operating at its expected capacity with no cause for concern.

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Domain 5Objective 3

715.3 Create, Monitor and Kill Processes (weight: 3) BSD-SPECIALIST Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Topic 715: Basic Unix Skills domain, which makes up ~20% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~7–12 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 29 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Questions 6–10

6foundation · easy
Which signal is commonly used to request a process to reload its configuration files without terminating?
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7foundation · easy
Which shell operator is used to start a command in the background?
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8foundation · easy
Which command is used to display a static list of currently running processes along with their CPU usage?
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9application · medium
A system administrator notices that a web server has been responding slowly for the past 20 minutes. Running `uptime` shows: `load average: 8.50, 6.20, 3.10` on a 4-core system. The administrator checks `top` and sees no single process using more than 30% CPU. What is the most accurate interpretation of this situation?
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10application · easy
A web application is hanging and not responding to requests. The administrator wants to stop the application process to allow a restart. The application is known to perform cleanup operations on exit. Which signal should the administrator send first?
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Questions 6–10

Which signal is commonly used to request a process to reload its configuration files without terminating?

Which shell operator is used to start a command in the background?

Which command is used to display a static list of currently running processes along with their CPU usage?

A web application is hanging and not responding to requests. The administrator wants to stop the application process to allow a restart. The application is known to perform cleanup operations on exit. Which signal should the administrator send first?

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