1.A process changes its state during its execution which is called as the process life cycle. A process life cycle consists of five stages which are:New,Running,Waiting,Ready,Terminated.
2.The role of the PCBs is of great importance in process management.They contain some necessary information of process such as process state and opend files. They are accessed and/or modified by most OS utilities, including scheduling, memory and I/O resource access and performance monitoring. Operating system must access PCB to acquire process information for better management.