A user is complaining about sluggish performance on her Linux system, and the technician suspects a running process is consuming excessive processor resources. Which of the following commands will the technician most likely use to locate the offending process?

a. ps

b. kill

c. dd

d. vi

Option (A) i. e., ps is the correct option to the following question.

Explanation:

Because this is the command used in Linux to know about the processes that are currently running including the (PID's). If the user of the Linux operating system runs that command without the argument then it shows that processes that are currently running on the current shell and every process have the PID number i. e., process identification number.