CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8) Practice Question

The correct answer is D. In the output of the ps command, the D state code represents an uninterruptible sleep. This state is most commonly seen when a process is blocked waiting for an I/O operation, such as reading from or writing to a disk or network storage, and it cannot be interrupted by signals.

• S represents an interruptible sleep, where the process is waiting for an event to complete but can still be woken up by a signal.
• Z represents a zombie or defunct process, which has completed execution but is still in the process table waiting for its parent process to read its exit status.
• R means the process is either running or on the run queue, ready to be executed.