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Question

A _________ process is moved to the ready state when its time allocation expires.

The correct answer is

Running

While a suspended-ready process might eventually move back to the Ready state when swapped in, the transition described due to time expiry specifically involves a process actively using the CPU, which is the Running state.

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Important Questions from Process State - Teaching

  1. An operating system completely releases the memory allocated to a process after the process transitions from which of the following states?
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