Quick Test

Q: You are trying to kill a process. You already sent is a TERM signal but it still won't go away. What is the logical next step?

a) Reboot the system
b) Start another process with the same name
c) Send the KILL signal to the process
d) Remove the command associated with the process

Answer:

c) Sending a KILL signal forcefully gets rid of a process which is in a state that it won't even catch the TERM signal to terminate.