Solaris 9 Scsa Exam I - Processes

Front 1

Which command sends a signal to a process?

1. kill
2. pkill
3. priocntl
4. ptree

Back 1

1. kill
2. pkill

Front 2

Which commands can be used to list processes?

1. pkill
2. ps
3. ptree
4. pgrep

Back 2

2, 3 & 4

2. ps
3. ptree
4. pgrep

Although pgrep without arguments doesn't list processes.

Front 3

Which would display a full list of processes and not just those of the user running the command?

1. ps
2. ps -Af
3. ps -ef
4. none of the above

Back 3

both 2 & 3

2. ps -Af
3. ps -ef

Front 4

What graphical interface is available to manage processes?

Back 4

Solaris Management Console (SMC)

Front 5

What filesystem is the Process File System used for tracking processes?

Back 5

PROCFS or /proc

Front 6

When using pkill & kill, what number corresponds to which signal.

Number
1
9
15

SIGNALS:
SIGHUP
SIGTERM
SIGKILL

Back 6

1 -> SIGHUP
9 -> SIGKILL
15 -> SIGTERM

Front 7

With no arguments, what signal is sent to the process id?

Back 7

15 or SIGTERM

Front 8

The lpsched process has a PID of 214. What command will terminate this process?

1. pkill lpsched
2. kill -9 214
3. kill -15 214
4. pkill -9 lpsched

Back 8

All of them will kill the process. Some more deadly than others.

Front 9

Processes are assigned a process class, how do you view the class of your processes currently running?

1. priocntl -l
2. dispadmin -l
3. ps -c
4. only root can view these

Back 9

3. ps -c

Under the column heading "CLS"

Front 10

Which command displays the configured process classes for your system?

1. ps -c
2. priocntl -l
3. dispadmin -l
4. ps -l

Back 10

2. priocntl -l
3. dispadmin -l

Front 11

Each process has a 'nice' number from 0 to 39. The /usr/bin/nice command, when used with no arguments will do what?

1. increase the process nice number by 4
2. decrease the process nice number by 4
3. results in an increase of the process priority
4. results in a decrease of the process priority

Back 11

Both 1 & 4

It increases the nice number by 4, wich results in a decrease in priority because the higher the nice number the lower the process priority.

Front 12

You are the root user, which command could you use to increase the process priority for proc1?

1. nice +10 proc1
2. nice -10 proc1
3. nice proc1 +10
4. nice proc1 -10

Back 12

2. nice -10 proc1

Front 13

With the following crontab entry:
30 7 * * * /usr/local/scripts/nbcheck.sh

When is this script automatically run?

1. Every day at 7:30am
2. July 30th each year
3. Every 7 minutes & 30 seconds
4. Every 30 days at 7:00am

Back 13

1. Every day at 7:30am

Front 14

What command & argument will display/list your crontab entries?

Back 14

crontab -l

Front 15

What command & argument do you use to edit crontab entries?

Back 15

crontab -e

Front 16

You are the root user, what command do you use to modify the crontab entries for the user oracle?

Back 16

crontab -e oracle

Front 17

Which directory contains the individual user's crontab files?

1. /etc/cron
2. /usr/crontabs
3. /var/cron/crontabs
4. /var/spool/cron/crontabs

Back 17

4. /var/spool/cron/crontabs

Front 18

The crontab has 6 fields, put these in order as they are in a crontab.

1. hour
2. numeric day of week (0-6, Sunday =0)
3. day of month
4. numeric month (1-12)
5. job/command to run
6. minute

Back 18

Fields in Order:
6--1--3--4--2--5

minute
hour
day of month
numeric month
numeric day of week
job/command to run

Front 19

Provide the crontab entry to run the command:
echo "Happy Birthday"
at 4:30pm on April 12th.

Back 19

30 16 12 04 * echo "Happy Birthday"

Front 20

What file must you create to list users that can create crontab files?

1. crontab
2. cron.allow
3. crontab.allow
4. allow

Back 20

2. cron.allow

Front 21

What is the major difference between running a job using 'at' or using 'crontab'?

Back 21

The 'at' job runs a single time, but 'crontab' jobs can be scheduled to repeat automatically.