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Aone program and one process
Bone program, two distinct processes with their own PCBs
Ctwo programs but a shared process
Dtwo processes that share the same heap and stack
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. one program, two distinct processes with their own PCBs
Chrome is the program (the executable on disk).
**Each launch is a separate process:** own PID, own memory map (stack, heap), own open file table, own PCB.
They may share read-only code pages but never live data.
The other options confuse process vs program or imagine shared mutable state across processes.
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