Week 5 – Process Management

operating systems and you becoming a power user week 5 answers

Life of a Process

1. What’s one main difference between Windows and Linux processes?

  • Linux processes can operate independent of their parents. Windows processes have a parent-child relationship.
  • There are no differences between Windows and Linux processes
  • Windows processes can operate independent of their parents. Linux processes have a parent-child relationship.

2. What do we launch when we execute a program?

  • A process
  • The CPU
  • A Word document
  • A web browser

3. What type of process is a daemon process?

  • Logging
  • Thought process
  • Background process
  • Foreground process

4. What is the name of the process that starts up other processes needed to boot a Linux OS?

  • Init
  • Smss.exe
  • PID
  • Kill

5. Which process in Windows OS handles running the GUI and command line console?

  • Smss.exe
  • Winlogon.exe
  • Notepad.exe
  • csrss.exe

Devendra Kumar

Project Management Apprentice at Google

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