SUSE LINUX FINAL UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following terms refers to a system service that does not run on a terminal? -
CORRECT ANSWER- Daemon Process
Which of the following commands can quickly identify the child processes started by a
particular daemon? - CORRECT ANSWER- pstree
Which of the following statements are true? (choose all that apply) - CORRECT ANSWER-
A child process only has one parent process and all background processes have a PID and a
job ID
What is the PID of init? - CORRECT ANSWER- One
To what processes are regular users allowed to send kill signals? - CORRECT ANSWER-
The ones the users own
You have just run the ps aux command and notice that most daemons have an S in the STAT
column. What does this mean? - CORRECT ANSWER- Sleeping process waiting to be
summoned by another process
What key can you press in the top command to send the process a signal? - CORRECT
ANSWER- k
What can you type at a command prompt to run the updatedb command in the background? -
CORRECT ANSWER- updatedb &
Which of the following key combinations can you use to pause a foreground process, such
that it may be send to the background with the bg command? - CORRECT ANSWER- Ctrl +
Z
Which of the following kill commands may be used to send the second background job a
SIGINT? - CORRECT ANSWER- Kill -2 %2
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following terms refers to a system service that does not run on a terminal? -
CORRECT ANSWER- Daemon Process
Which of the following commands can quickly identify the child processes started by a
particular daemon? - CORRECT ANSWER- pstree
Which of the following statements are true? (choose all that apply) - CORRECT ANSWER-
A child process only has one parent process and all background processes have a PID and a
job ID
What is the PID of init? - CORRECT ANSWER- One
To what processes are regular users allowed to send kill signals? - CORRECT ANSWER-
The ones the users own
You have just run the ps aux command and notice that most daemons have an S in the STAT
column. What does this mean? - CORRECT ANSWER- Sleeping process waiting to be
summoned by another process
What key can you press in the top command to send the process a signal? - CORRECT
ANSWER- k
What can you type at a command prompt to run the updatedb command in the background? -
CORRECT ANSWER- updatedb &
Which of the following key combinations can you use to pause a foreground process, such
that it may be send to the background with the bg command? - CORRECT ANSWER- Ctrl +
Z
Which of the following kill commands may be used to send the second background job a
SIGINT? - CORRECT ANSWER- Kill -2 %2
