What is a process Explain the mechanism of process creation in?

Answer 1

A process is a collection of interrelated work tasks initiated in response to an event that achieves a specific result for the customer of the process.

Adding more specific detail to that general definition:

• that achieves a specific result:
• • must deliver a specific result
  • this result must be individually identifiable and countable
  • a good process name clearly indicates the result or end state of the process
• for the customer of the process:
• • a customer receives the result or is the beneficiary of it
  • the customer can be a person or an organization
  • customer can be identified and can pass judgment on the result and process
  • customer point of view helps identify and name the process accurately
• initiated in response to a specific event:
• • the process must be initiated in response to a specific event
  • multiple events can initiate a process
  • having an event AND a result allows the tracing of the sequence of tasks that turns the event into the result
• work tasks:
• • a collection of actions, activities, steps or tasks make up a business process
  • a step in the initial workflow will probably be divided into more detailed steps later
• a collection of interrelated:
• • the process steps must relate to each other
  • interrelationship is through sequence and flow...the completion of one step leads to (flows into) the initiation of the next step
  • also interrelated by dealing with the same work item
  • steps related by being traceable back to the same initiation event

Answer 2

A process is an independent entity that runs within an operating system and performs a specific task. The mechanism of process creation involves the operating system allocating resources such as memory and CPU time to a new process, initializing its state, and setting up the necessary structures to execute the program associated with the process. This typically involves creating a Process Control Block (PCB) to store information about the process and scheduling it to run on the CPU.