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Process and System Monitoring
Check skills in managing processes and monitoring system resources.
1. Which command is used to display real-time system statistics including CPU, memory, and processes?
top
ps
df
free
2. What does PID stand for in process management?
Process ID
Program ID
Performance Index Data
Primary Input Device
3. Which process state indicates a process is waiting for an event (e.g., I/O) to complete?
Running
Sleeping
Zombie
Stopped
4. Which tool is primarily used to monitor disk I/O statistics?
iostat
vmstat
netstat
sar
5. In the 'ps' command, which option displays all processes for all users?
-a
-e
-l
-u
6. What does the 'load average' in system monitoring represent?
Average CPU usage over time
Number of processes waiting to run
Disk I/O rate
Network bandwidth usage
7. Which command is used to list open files by processes?
lsof
netstat
ps
top
8. What is the default output of the 'free' command?
Disk space
Memory usage
CPU load
Network connections
9. Which of the following are common process states in Unix-like systems?
Running
Sleeping
Zombie
Compiling
Terminated
10. Which tools can be used to monitor network connections?
netstat
ss
lsof
iostat
vmstat
11. Which options for the 'top' command sort processes by memory usage?
-o %MEM
-m
--sort=mem
-r
-p
12. What information can be obtained from the 'vmstat' command?
CPU usage
Memory statistics
Disk I/O
Network packets
Process count
13. Which are considered system monitoring daemons/services?
Prometheus
Nagios
top
Zabbix
ps
14. A zombie process is a process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table.
True
False
15. The 'htop' command is a text-mode interface similar to 'top' but with additional features like mouse support.
True
False
16. The 'df' command is used to display free disk space.
True
False
17. A process with PID 1 is typically the 'systemd' process on modern Linux systems.
True
False
18. What is the 3-letter abbreviation for the tool used to collect and store system metrics, often paired with Grafana?
19. Name the command used to send signals to processes (e.g., to terminate them) (3 letters).
20. What two-word term refers to the amount of physical memory currently in use by processes? (first word starts with 'u')
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