AVRO QUIZ DESCRIPTION

The key and value classes have to be _________ by the Mapreduce framework.

  • collected
     

  • serializable
     

  •  compacted
     

  •  none of the mentioned

Point out the correct statement.

  • Configuration parameters may be declared static
     

  •  Unless explicitly turned off, Hadoop by default specifies two resources
     

  • Configuration class provides access to configuration parameters
     

  • None of the mentioned

Which of the following adds a configuration resource?

  • addDeprecation
     

  •  setDeprecatedProperties
     

  • addDefaultResource
     

  •  addResource

___________ gives site-specific configuration for a given hadoop installation.

  • core-default.xml
     

  •  core-site.xml
     

  •  coredefault.xml
     

  •  all of the mentioned

Administrators typically define parameters as final in __________ for values that user applications may not alter.

  • core-default.xml
     

  •  core-site.xml
     

  • coredefault.xml
     

  •  all of the mentioned

Point out the wrong statement.

  • Apache Avro™ is a data serialization system
     

  • Avro provides simple integration with dynamic languages
     

  • Avro provides rich data structures
     

  •  All of the mentioned

Point out the wrong statement.

  • It is legal to set the number of reduce-tasks to zero if no reduction is desired
     

  • The outputs of the map-tasks go directly to the FileSystem
     

  • The Mapreduce framework does not sort the map-outputs before writing them out to the FileSystem
     

  • None of the mentioned

Point out the wrong statement.

  • addDeprecations adds a set of deprecated keys to the global deprecations
     

  • configuration parameters cannot be declared final
     

  •  addDeprecations method is lockless
     

  • none of the mentioned

The ___________ executes the Mapper/ Reducer task as a child process in a separate jvm.

  • JobTracker
     

  • JobTracker
     

  •  TaskScheduler
     

  •  None of the mentioned

Which of the following partitions the key space?

  • Partitioner
     

  • Compactor
     

  •  Collector
     

  •  All of the mentioned

Avro is said to be the future _______ layer of Hadoop.

  •  RMC
     

  • RPC
     

  • RDC
     

  •  All of the mentioned

Key classes have to implement the __________ interface to facilitate sorting by the framework.

  •  Writable
     

  • Comparable
     

  • WritableComparable
     

  • None of the mentioned

The ________ option allows applications to add jars to the classpaths of the maps and reduces.

  • optionname
     

  • -libjars
     

  • -archives
     

  •  all of the mentioned

Hadoop _________ is a SWIG- compatible C++ API to implement MapReduce applications.

  • Streaming
     

  • Pipes
     

  •  Orchestration
     

  •  All of the mentioned

_______ job usually splits the input data-set into independent chunks which are processed by the map tasks in a completely parallel manner.

  • Tasker
     

  • MapReduce
     

  • Tasktrack
     

  •  None of the mentioned

________ method adds the deprecated key to the global deprecation map.

  • addDeprecits
     

  •  addDeprecation
     

  • keyDeprecation
     

  • none of the mentioned

Point out the correct statement.

  •  Avro provides functionality similar to systems such as Thrift
     

  •  When Avro is used in RPC, the client and server exchange data in the connection handshake
     

  •  Apache Avro, Avro, Apache, and the Avro and Apache logos are trademarks of The Java Foundation
     

  • None of the mentioned

__________ is a generalization of the facility provided by the MapReduce framework to collect data output by the Mapper or the Reducer.

  • OutputCompactor
     

  • OutputCollector
     

  • InputCollector
     

  • All of the mentioned

The ___________ executes the Mapper/ Reducer task as a child process in a separate jvm.

  • JobTracker
     

  • JobTracker
     

  •  TaskScheduler
     

  •  None of the mentioned

Thrift resolves possible conflicts through _________ of the field.

  • Name
     

  •  Static number
     

  •  UID
     

  • None of the mentioned

The option ___________ allows to pass comma separated list of archives as arguments.

  • optionname
     

  •  -libjars
     

  • -archives
     

  • none of the mentioned

Point out the correct statement.

  • Another limitation of the Hadoop MapReduce framework is its pull-based scheduling model
     

  • The MapReduce framework sorts the outputs of the maps, which are then input to the reduce tasks
     

  •  The MapReduce framework takes care of scheduling tasks, monitoring them and re-executes the failed tasks
     

  •  All of the mentioned

________ is the primary interface for a user to describe a MapReduce job to the Hadoop framework for execution.

  • JobConfig
     

  •  JobConf
     

  • JobConfiguration
     

  • All of the mentioned

________ method clears all keys from the configuration.

  • clear
     

  •  addResource
     

  •  getClass
     

  • none of the mentioned

Avro schemas are defined with _____

  • JSON
     

  •  XML
     

  • JAVA
     

  • All of the mentioned

We can declare the schema of our data either in a ______ file.

  • JSON
     

  •  XML
     

  • SQL
     

  •  R

_________ gives site-specific configuration for a given hadoop installation.

  • core-default.xml
     

  •  core-site.xml
     

  • coredefault.xml
     

  •  all of the mentioned

When using reflection to automatically build our schemas without code generation, we need to configure Avro using?

  • AvroJob.Reflect(jConf);
     

  •  AvroJob.setReflect(jConf);
     

  •  Job.setReflect(jConf);
     

  •  None of the mentioned

_____________ is percentage of memory relative to the maximum heap size in which map outputs may be retained during the reduce.

  • mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent
     

  • mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percen
     

  •  mapred.inmem.merge.threshold
     

  • io.sort.factor

Point out the correct statement.

  • Configuration parameters may be declared static
     

  •  Unless explicitly turned off, Hadoop by default specifies two resources
     

  • Configuration class provides access to configuration parameters
     

  • None of the mentioned