Job application process

Hi everyone, I’m new to navigating the state application process. I have read a decent amount about it on here but wanted to ask a few questions. I have applied for a few jobs, some I got rejection notifications pretty swiftly after closing (I applied to some that I didn’t meet all of the qualifications - lesson learned.). For the other jobs, their postings have closed and been closed for a bit but I have not heard anything yet, what does this usually mean? Maybe I didn’t fail the basic qualifications review lol? Do they update the status of the application along the process? TIA