Which process continues to be recorded in the process table after it has ended and the status is returned to the parent?

A daemon is a long-running background process that provides system services - it is defined by its role, not by the termination state of its parent.

A zombie process is one that has already completed execution but remains in the process table because its parent has not yet called wait() to collect its exit status - it is the child that has ended, not the parent.

An orphan process is created when a parent process terminates before its child process finishes. The orphaned child continues to run and remains in the process table, and the operating system re-parents it to init (PID 1), which will collect its exit status when it eventually completes. This is distinct from a zombie, where the child has already ended but the parent has not yet retrieved the exit status.

A child process is simply any process spawned by another process and does not specifically describe a process that persists after its parent has ended.