XK0-006 System Management Practice Question
A technician needs to kill a process with PID 1234 that is not responding to normal termination. Which command sends SIGKILL?
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Why each option matters
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kill -9 1234
kill -9 sends SIGKILL, which forcefully terminates the process.
Answer analysis
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kill 1234
Why it's wrong here
kill without signal sends SIGTERM (15), which requests graceful termination.
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kill -15 1234
Why it's wrong here
SIGTERM is sent, not SIGKILL.
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kill -9 1234
Why this is correct
kill -9 sends SIGKILL, forcefully killing the process.
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kill -1 1234
Why it's wrong here
SIGHUP (1) is used to reload configuration, not kill.
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