HADOOP QUIZ DESCRIPTION

Point out the wrong statement.

  • Hardtop processing capabilities are huge and its real advantage lies in the ability to process terabytes & petabytes of data
     

  • Hadoop uses a programming model called “MapReduce”, all the programs should conform to this model in order to work on the Hadoop platform
     

  • The programming model, MapReduce, used by Hadoop is difficult to write and test
     

  •  All of the mentioned

The Hadoop list includes the HBase database, the Apache Mahout ________ system, and matrix operations.

  • Machine learning
     

  • Pattern recognition
     

  •  Statistical classification
     

  •  Artificial intelligence

What was Hadoop written in?

  • Java (software platform)
     

  •  Perl
     

  • Java (programming language)
     

  •  Lua (programming language)

Point out the correct statement.

  • MapReduce tries to place the data and the compute as close as possible
     

  • Map Task in MapReduce is performed using the Mapper() function
     

  •  Reduce Task in MapReduce is performed using the Map() function
     

  •  All of the mentioned

Above the file systems comes the ________ engine, which consists of one Job Tracker, to which client applications submit MapReduce jobs.

  • MapReduce
     

  • Google
     

  •  Functional programming
     

  • Facebook

Hadoop achieves reliability by replicating the data across multiple hosts and hence does not require ________ storage on hosts.

  • RAID
     

  •  Standard RAID levels
     

  •  ZFS
     

  •  Operating system

_______ is a platform for constructing data flows for extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing and analysis of large datasets.

  • Pig Latin
     

  • Oozie
     

  •  Pig
     

  • Hive

What was Hadoop named after?

  • Creator Doug Cutting’s favorite circus act
     

  • Cutting’s high school rock band
     

  • The toy elephant of Cutting’s son
     

  •  A sound Cutting’s laptop made during Hadoop development

_________ has the world’s largest Hadoop cluster.

  • Apple
     

  • Datamatics
     

  •  Facebook
     

  • None of the mentioned

Mapper implementations are passed the JobConf for the job via the ________ method.

  •  JobConfigure.configure
     

  •  JobConfigurable.configure
     

  •  JobConfigurable.configurable
     

  •  None of the mentioned

Point out the wrong statement.

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

  • The MapReduce framework operates exclusively on <key, value> pairs
     

  •  Applications typically implement the Mapper and Reducer interfaces to provide the map and reduce methods
     

  • None of the mentioned

_______ is the most popular high-level Java API in Hadoop Ecosystem

  • Scalding
     

  •  HCatalog
     

  • Cascalog
     

  •  Cascading

Sun also has the Hadoop Live CD ________ project, which allows running a fully functional Hadoop cluster using a live CD.

  • OpenOffice.org
     

  •  OpenSolaris
     

  •  GNU
     

  •  Linux

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

  • Partitioner
     

  • OutputCollector
     

  •  Reporter
     

  •  All of the mentioned

The right number of reduces seems to be ____________

  • 0.90
     

  • 0.80
     

  • 0.36
     

  • 0.95

According to analysts, for what can traditional IT systems provide a foundation when they’re integrated with big data technologies like Hadoop?

  • Big data management and data mining
     

  •  Data warehousing and business intelligence
     

  •  Management of Hadoop clusters
     

  •  Collecting and storing unstructured data

Input to the _______ is the sorted output of the mappers.

  • Reducer
     

  •  Mapper
     

  • Shuffle
     

  •  All of the mentioned

_________ is the default Partitioner for partitioning key space.

  • HashPar
     

  •  Partitioner
     

  •  HashPartitioner
     

  •  None of the mentioned

IBM and ________ have announced a major initiative to use Hadoop to support university courses in distributed computer programming.

  • Google Latitude
     

  • Android (operating system)
     

  • Google Variations
     

  • Google

________ hides the limitations of Java behind a powerful and concise Clojure API for Cascading.

  •  Scalding
     

  •  HCatalog
     

  • Cascalog
     

  •  All of the mentioned

_______ is a utility which allows users to create and run jobs with any executables as the mapper and/or the reducer.

  • Hadoop Strdata
     

  •  Hadoop Streaming
     

  •  Hadoop Stream
     

  •  None of the mentioned

Which of the following platforms does Hadoop run on?

  • Bare metal
     

  •  Debian
     

  • Cross-platform
     

  •  Unix-like

All of the following accurately describe Hadoop, EXCEPT ____________

  • Open-source
     

  •  Real-time
     

  •  Java-based
     

  •  Distributed computing approach

__________ is general-purpose computing model and runtime system for distributed data analytics.

  •  Mapreduce
     

  •  Drill
     

  •  Oozie
     

  • None of the mentioned

Point out the wrong statement.

  • Reducer has 2 primary phases
     

  •  Increasing the number of reduces increases the framework overhead, but increases load balancing and lowers the cost of failures
     

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

  • The framework groups Reducer inputs by keys (since different mappers may have output the same key) in the sort stage

Which of the following genres does Hadoop produce?

  • Distributed file system
     

  •  JAX-RS
     

  •  Java Message Service
     

  •  Relational Database Management System

__________ part of the MapReduce is responsible for processing one or more chunks of data and producing the output results.

  • Maptask
     

  •  Mapper
     

  •  Task execution
     

  • All of the mentioned

_________ maps input key/value pairs to a set of intermediate key/value pairs.

  • Mapper

     

  •  Reducer
     

  •  Both Mapper and Reducer
     

  •  None of the mentioned

The Pig Latin scripting language is not only a higher-level data flow language but also has operators similar to ____________

  • SQL
     

  •  JSON
     

  •  XML
     

  •  All of the mentioned

Which of the following phases occur simultaneously?

  • Shuffle and Sort
     

  •  Reduce and Sort
     

  •  Shuffle and Map
     

  •  All of the mentioned