103.5 Create, Monitor and Kill Processes LPIC-1 Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

1. 16foundation · easy

   Which key combination suspends the current foreground process and puts it in the stopped state?

   • ACtrl+Z
   • BCtrl+\
   • CCtrl+C
   • DCtrl+D
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2. 17foundation · easy

   Which command is used to schedule a one-time job to run at a specific time in the future?

   • Acron
   • Bcrontab
   • Cbatch
   • Dat
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4. 18application · medium

   A user has several processes named 'myapp' running under their account. They want to terminate all of them gracefully, but only their own instances, not those of other users. Which command should they use?

   • Akill $(pgrep myapp)
   • Bkillall myapp
   • Cpkill -u $USER myapp
   • Dpkill myapp
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5. 19foundation · easy

   What does it mean when a process is in the 'stopped' state?

   • AThe process is waiting for input/output to complete.
   • BThe process is running but has been moved to the background.
   • CThe process has terminated and is waiting to be removed from the process table.
   • DThe process is temporarily suspended and can be resumed with a signal such as SIGCONT.
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6. 20application · medium

   A database administrator needs to run a maintenance script once at 2:00 AM tonight. The script takes about 30 minutes and must run even if the administrator logs out. Which approach should be used?

   • AUse at 2am and submit the script
   • BUse nohup script &
   • CUse cron with an entry for 2 AM every day
   • DUse sleep 6h && script &
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