Multiple choice technology operating systems

What is the first process that comes into existence whenever system is booted?

  1. init

  2. shell

  3. kernel

  4. login
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Explanation

During the system boot sequence, the kernel is loaded into memory first and acts as the initial entity running on the system. Although init is the first user-space process (PID 1), Unix MCQ contexts conventionally consider the kernel as the first system process/entity that comes into existence.

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