Topic / Module: Big Data overview

Q. No. 1
Question:
What is not true about Big Data
Answer Choices
A: Hadoop ecosystem handles Big Data
B: It is represented by 4 V's
C: It references OLTP system
D: It references OLAP system.

Answer:C

Q. No. 2
Question:
What is not true about Hadoop
Answer Choices
A: It is a distributed parallel processing ecosystem.
B: It is ideally a Datawarehouse solution
C: It can replace RDBMS systems completely
D: It is a file system

Answer:C

Q. No. 3
Question:
Which one of the following is not among 4V's of Big Data
Answer Choices
A) Volume –Scale of data
B) Velocity –Different forms of data
C) Variety –Analysis of streaming data
D) Volatile –Synchronzation of data

Answer:D

Q. No. 4
Question:
Which one of the following is not Hadoop's Distributiion
Answer Choices
A) MapR
B) Cloudera
C) Hortonworks
D) MapReduce

Answer:D
Q. No. 5
Question:
Which one of the following is not a part of Hadoop's Ecosystem
Answer Choices
A) HDFS
B) MapReduce
C) Hbase
D) MongoDB

Answer:D
Q. No. 6
Question:
Hadoop is a framework that works with a variety of related tools. Common cohorts
include:
A) MapReduce, Hive and HBase
B) MapReduce, MySQL and Google Apps
C) MapReduce, Hummer and Iguana
D) MapReduce, Heron and Trumpet

Answer:A
Q. No. 7
Question:
__________ can best be described as a programming model used to develop Hadoop-
based applications that can process massive amounts of data.
a) MapReduce
b) Mahout
c) Oozie
d) All of the mentioned
Answer:a
Q. No. 8
Question:
__________ can best be described as a programming model used to develop Hadoop-
based applications that can process massive amounts of data.
a) MapReduce
b) Mahout
c) Oozie
d) All of the mentioned
Answer:a

Q. No. 9
Question:
Point out the correct statement :
a) Hive is not a relational database, but a query engine that supports the parts of SQL
specific to querying data
b) Hive is a relational database with SQL support
c) Pig is a relational database with SQL support
d) All of the mentioned
Answer : a

Q. No. 10
Question:
The Pig Latin scripting language is not only a higher-level data flow language but also
has operators similar to :
a) SQL
b) JSON
c) XML
d) All of the mentioned
Answer : a

Q. No. 11
Question:
A ________ node acts as the Slave and is responsible for executing a Task assigned to
it by the JobTracker.
a) MapReduce
b) Mapper
c) TaskTracker
d) JobTracker
Answer : c

Q. No. 12
Question:
Point out the correct statement :
a) MapReduce tries to place the data and the compute as close as possible
b) Map Task in MapReduce is performed using the Mapper() function
c) Reduce Task in MapReduce is performed using the Map() function
d) All of the mentioned
Answer : a

Q. No. 13
Question:
_________ function is responsible for consolidating the results produced by each of the
Map() functions/tasks.
a) Reduce
b) Map
c) Reducer
d) All of the mentioned
Answer : a

Q. No. 14
Question:
_________ is the default Partitioner for partitioning key space.
a) HashPar
b) Partitioner
c) HashPartitioner
d) None of the mentioned
Answer : a

Q. No. 15
Question:
Input to the _______ is the sorted output of the mappers.
a) Reducer
b) Mapper
c) Shuffle
d) All of the mentioned
Answer : a

Q. No. 16
Question:
Point out the wrong statement :
a) Reducer has 2 primary phases
b) Increasing the number of reduces increases the framework overhead, but increases
load balancing and lowers the cost of failures
c) It is legal to set the number of reduce-tasks to zero if no reduction is desired
d) The framework groups Reducer inputs by keys (since different mappers may have
output the same key) in sort stage
Answer : a

Q. No. 17
Question:
Which of the following phases occur simultaneously ?
a) Shuffle and Sort
b) Reduce and Sort
c) Shuffle and Map
d) All of the mentioned
Answer : a

Q. No. 18
Question:
_________ is the primary interface for a user to describe a MapReduce job to the
Hadoop framework for execution.
a) Map Parameters
b) JobConf
c) MemoryConf
d) None of the mentioned
Answer : b

Q. No. 19
Question:
Which of the following phases occur simultaneously ?
a) Shuffle and Sort
b) Reduce and Sort
c) Shuffle and Map
d) All of the mentioned
Answer: a

Q. No. 20
Question:
The need for data replication can arise in various scenarios like :
a) Replication Factor is changed
b) DataNode goes down
c) Data Blocks get corrupted
d) All of the mentioned
Answer :d

Q. No. 21
Question:
________ is the slave/worker node and holds the user data in the form of Data Blocks.
a) DataNode
b) NameNode
c) Data block
d) Replication
Answer :a

Q. No. 22
Question:
The daemons associated with the MapReduce phase are ________ and task-trackers.
a) job-tracker
b) map-tracker
c) reduce-tracker
d) All of the mentioned
Answer :a

Q. No. 23
Question:
The JobTracker pushes work out to available _______ nodes in the cluster, striving to
keep the work as close to the data as possible
a) DataNodes
b) TaskTracker
c) ActionNodes
d) All of the mentioned
Answer :a

Q. No. 24
Question:
InputFormat class calls the ________ function and computes splits for each file and
then sends them to the jobtracker.
a) puts
b) gets
c) getSplits
d) All of the mentioned
Answer :a

Q. No. 25
Question:
InputFormat class calls the ________ function and computes splits for each file and
then sends them to the jobtracker.
a) puts
b) gets
c) getSplits
d) All of the mentioned
Answer :c

Q. No. 26
Question:
On a tasktracker, the map task passes the split to the createRecordReader() method on
InputFormat to obtain a _________ for that split.
a) InputReader
b) RecordReader
c) OutputReader
d) None of the mentioned
Answer :b

Q. No. 27
Question:
The default InputFormat is __________ which treats each value of input a new value
and the associated key is byte offset.
a) TextFormat
b) TextInputFormat
c) InputFormat
d) All of the mentioned
Answer :b

Q. No. 28
Question:
__________ controls the partitioning of the keys of the intermediate map-outputs.
a) Collector
b) Partitioner
c) InputFormat
d) None of the mentioned
Answer :b

Q. No. 29
Question:
Output of the mapper is first written on the local disk for sorting and _________
process.
a) shuffling
b) secondary sorting
c) forking
d) reducing
Answer :a

Q. No. 30
Question:
The __________ is a framework-specific entity that negotiates resources from the
ResourceManager
a) NodeManager
b) ResourceManager
c) ApplicationMaster
d) All of the mentioned
Answer :c

Q. No. 31
Question:
Apache Hadoop YARN stands for :
a) Yet Another Reserve Negotiator
b) Yet Another Resource Network
c) Yet Another Resource Negotiator
d) All of the mentioned
Answer :c

Q. No. 32
Question:
The ____________ is the ultimate authority that arbitrates resources among all the
applications in the system.
a) NodeManager
b) ResourceManager
c) ApplicationMaster
d) All of the mentioned
Answer :b

Q. No. 33
Question:
The __________ is responsible for allocating resources to the various running
applications subject to familiar constraints of capacities, queues etc.
a) Manager
b) Master
c) Scheduler
d) None of the mentioned
Answer :b

Q. No. 34
Question:
ZooKeeper allows distributed processes to coordinate with each other through registers,
known as :
a) znodes
b) hnodes
c) vnodes
d) rnodes
Answer :a

Q. No. 35
Question:
ZooKeeper allows distributed processes to coordinate with each other through registers,
known as :
a) znodes
b) hnodes
c) vnodes
d) rnodes
Answer :a

Q. No. 36
Question:
In Hive SerDe stands for

A - serialize and Desrialize

B - serializer and Deserializer

C - Serialize and Destruct

D - serve and destruct

Answer :B

Q. No. 37
Question:

To select all columns starting with the word 'Sell' form the table GROSS_SELL the query
is

A - select '$Sell*' from GROSS_SELL

B - select 'Sell*' from GROSS_SELL

C - select 'sell.*' from GROSS_SELL

D - select 'sell[*]' from GROSS_SELL

Answer :C

Q. No. 38
Question:
Which of the following hint is used to optimize the join queries

A - /* joinlast(table_name) */

B - /* joinfirst(table_name) */

C - /* streamtable(table_name) */

D - /* cacheable(table_name) */

Answer :C

Q. No. 39
Question:

The drawback of managed tables in hive is

A - they are always stored under default directory

B - They cannot grow bigger than a fixed size of 100GB

C - They can never be dropped

D - They cannot be shared with other applications

Answer:D

Q. No. 40
Question:
In case of one large table and 2 small tables, for an optimized query performance

A - The largest one should be cached to memory and small ones should be streamed

B - The small Ones should be cached and large one should be streamed

C - All of the table should be cached

D - All the tables should be streamed.

Answer:B

Q. No. 41
Question:

What are collection data types in Pig

A - Tuple

B - Bag

C - Map

D - All

Answer:D

Q. No. 42
Question:
What are collection data types in Pig

A - Tuple

B - Bag

C - Map

D - All

Answer:D

Q. No. 43
Question:

How to refer fields in Pig

A – By Names

B – By Positional Notation

C - Both

D - None

Answer:C

Q. No. 44
Question:
Where we store Bag on Pig

A – {}

B–[]

C–()

D-<>

Answer: A

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