CIS721-Midterm Exam Fall 2020
CIS721-Midterm Exam Fall 2020
Name: St: .
Note: Your answer should depend mainly on what was discussed in the class. Moreover, your final
grade in the letter grade system depends mainly on the variations between your grade and others.
Q1> (10 points) After studying the data life cycle management, answer the following questions:
What is the purpose of the capture step?
Can the data be stored in a single file system? Explain why or why not?
What are the major challenges of the data analysis process?
Give two examples of the rules of analytics?
What is the purpose(s) of No-SQL database?
Q2> (3 points) Explain very briefly the difference between the data intensive and computational
intensive approaches?
Data Intensive Computational Intensive
Q3>
a) (4 points) Explain briefly How Hadoop 1x does achieve reliability?
b) ( 2 points) Flexibility and scalability are of the main features of Hadoop, explain this.
Q4> (6 points) Explain briefly How Hadoop 2x does achieve reliability?