Which of the following statements is correct for a command line ending with a &...

The statement that is correct for a command line ending with a & character is that the command is run in background of the current shell. The & character tells the shell to run the command in the background, which means that the shell does not wait for the command to finish and returns the prompt immediately. The command’s output is not redirected to /dev/null, unless explicitly specified. The result of the command does not define if the next command will be run, unless the commands are separated by a logical operatorsuch as && or ||. The command is not run as a direct child of the init process, unless the shell is the init process itself. References: [LPI Exam 101 Detailed Objectives], Topic 103: GNU and Unix Commands, Weight: 25, Objective 103.1: Work on the command line, Background Processes