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1) HBase is a distributed ________ database built on top of the Hadoop file system. 1 point

Row-oriented

Course Tuple-oriented
outline Column-oriented
None of the mentioned
About Yes, the answer is correct.
NPTEL () Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
How does an Column-oriented
NPTEL
online 2) Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source _______ database. 1 point
course
work? () SQL
NewSQL
Week 0 ()
NoSQL
None of the mentioned
Week 1 ()
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 2 ()
Accepted Answers:
NoSQL
Week 3 ()

3) A small chunk of data residing in one machine which is part of a cluster of machines 1 point
Week 4 ()
holding one Hbase table is known as__________________

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Week 5 () Rowarea
Tablearea
Week 6 () Split
Region
Lecture 16:
Design of Key- Yes, the answer is correct.
Value Stores Score: 1
(unit? Accepted Answers:
unit=52&lesso Region
n=53)
4) Cell in HBase Table is a combination of _________________________ 1 point
Lecture 17:
Design of Row and column family
HBase (unit? Row, column family and column qualifier
unit=52&lesso
n=54)
Row, column family, column qualifier and row keys
Row, column family, column qualifier and contains a value and a timestamp
Week 6:
Lecture Notes Yes, the answer is correct.
(unit?
Score: 1
unit=52&lesso Accepted Answers:
n=55) Row, column family, column qualifier and contains a value and a timestamp

Quiz: Week 6:
5) A bloom filter is a bit vector V with m entries and k (ideally-independent) hash 1 point
Assignment 6
functions. To insert a new element i, we set V [hj (i)] = 1 for each of the k hash functions hj .
(assessment?
name=125) To check whether an element i is in the set, we AND together each value V [hj (i)] for all k hash
functions.
Feedback For
Week 6 (unit? m
The optimal number of hash functions is K =
n
ln2 . For that number of hash functions, and
unit=52&lesso m lnp

n=56) given a choice of false positive rate, the ratio n

= −
2
, where n is the number of keys in
(ln2)

the table and p is the false positive rate. Compute the approximate number of bits per entry and
Week 6:
Assignment 6 the number of hash functions needed for a false positive rate of 1%.
Solution (unit?
unit=52&lesso
6.6 bits per key and 6 hash functions
n=115) 9.6 bits per key and 7 hash functions
12.6 bits per key and12 hash functions
Week 7 ()
9.6 bits per key and 6 hash functions

Week 8 () Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Text Accepted Answers:
Transcripts 9.6 bits per key and 7 hash functions
()
6) Consider the following statements: 1 point
Download
Videos () Statement 1: Scale out means grow your cluster capacity by replacing with more powerful
machines.
Books ()
Statement 2: Scale up means incrementally grow your cluster capacity by adding more COTS
machines (Components Off the Shelf).

Only statement 1 is true

Only statement 2 is true

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Both statements are true

Both statements are false

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Both statements are false

7) Cassandra uses a protocol called _______ to discover location and state 1 point
information.

HBase
Gossip
Key-value
None of the mentioned

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Gossip

8) Fill the correct choices for the given scenarios: 1 point

P: _________________Reads/writes complete reliably and quickly.

Q: __________________When thousands of customers are looking to book a flight, all updates

from any client (e.g.- book a flight) should be accessible by other clients.

R: _________________Can happen across datacenters when the Internet gets disconnected

P: Availability, Q: Consistency, R: Partition tolerance

P: Consistency, Q: Availability, R: Partition tolerance
P: Partition tolerance, Q: Consistency, R: Availability
P: Consistency, Q: Partition tolerance, R: Availability

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
P: Availability, Q: Consistency, R: Partition tolerance

9) ________________ a memory cache to store the in memory copy of the data. It 1 point
accumulates writes and provides read for data which are not yet stored to disk.

Distributed Hash tables (DHT)

Collection
SSTable
Memtable

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Memtable

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10) In Cassandra, ______________job is to determine which data centers and racks it 1 point
should use to read data from and write data to.

Client requests
Partitioner
Snitch
None of the mentioned
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Snitch

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