Quiz on Process Management

What is a process?

• A user interface element

• A type of hardware

• A static piece of code

• A program in execution

Which section of a process contains temporary data such as method parameters?

• Heap

• Stack

• Data

• Text

What is the initial state of a process when it is first created?

• Running

• Terminated

• Ready

• Start/New

What does the Process Control Block (PCB) maintain?

• Network configurations

• Information needed to track a process

• File system details

• User interface details

Which of the following is NOT a state of a process?

• Terminated

• Idle

• Waiting

• Running

What is the role of the short-term scheduler?

• To monitor system performance

• To handle memory management

• To select processes that are ready to execute

• To manage long-term job scheduling

What is the purpose of the long-term scheduler?

• To execute processes in real-time

• To manage CPU allocation

• To determine which programs are admitted for processing

• To handle I/O operations

Which queue keeps all processes in the system?

• Job queue

• Execution queue

• Ready queue

• Device queue

What is a thread in the context of a process?

• A type of hardware component

• A separate process

• A part of a process that can execute independently

• A method of data storage

What happens to a process that is swapped out?

• It is moved to secondary storage

• It is permanently deleted

• It continues to execute

• It becomes a thread