Explore topic-wise MCQs in Apache Hadoop.

This section includes 14 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Apache Hadoop knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

HDFS works in a __________ fashion.

A. master-worker
B. master-slave
C. worker/slave
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» B. master-slave
2.

A ________ serves as the master and there is only one NameNode per cluster.

A. Data Node
B. NameNode
C. Data block
D. Replication
Answer» C. Data block
3.

In order to read any file in HDFS, instance of __________ is required.

A. filesystem
B. datastream
C. outstream
D. inputstream
Answer» B. datastream
4.

_____________ is used to read data from bytes buffers .

A. write()
B. read()
C. readwrite()
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» B. read()
5.

HDFS is implemented in _____________ programming language.

A. C++
B. Java
C. Scala
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Scala
6.

______________ is method to copy byte from input stream to any other stream in Hadoop.

A. IOUtils
B. Utils
C. IUtils
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. Utils
7.

Interface ____________ reduces a set of intermediate values which share a key to a smaller set of values.

A. Mapper
B. Reducer
C. Writable
D. Readable
Answer» C. Writable
8.

Reducer is input the grouped output of a :

A. Mapper
B. Reducer
C. Writable
D. Readable
Answer» B. Reducer
9.

Applications can use the _________ provided to report progress or just indicate that they are alive.

A. Collector
B. Reporter
C. Dashboard
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Dashboard
10.

Which of the following parameter is to collect keys and combined values ?

A. key
B. values
C. reporter
D. output
Answer» E.
11.

The output of the reduce task is typically written to the FileSystem via :

A. OutputCollector
B. InputCollector
C. OutputCollect
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. InputCollector
12.

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» B. secondary sorting
13.

__________ controls the partitioning of the keys of the intermediate map-outputs.

A. Collector
B. Partitioner
C. InputFormat
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. InputFormat
14.

__________ is the parent argument used to specify the relative path to which the files should be archived to

A. -archiveName <name>
B. -p <parent_path>
C. <destination>
D. <source>
Answer» C. <destination>