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This section includes 11 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Hadoop knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
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 | |
2. |
__________ 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 | |
3. |
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» C. ActionNodes | |
4. |
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 | |
5. |
__________ 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 | |
6. |
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» C. InputFormat | |
7. |
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» C. OutputReader | |
8. |
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» D. all of the mentioned | |
9. |
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» C. ActionNodes | |
10. |
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» B. map-tracker | |
11. |
________ is a programming model designed for processing large volumes of data in parallel by dividing the work into a set of independent tasks. |
A. | Hive |
B. | MapReduce |
C. | Pig |
D. | Lucene |
Answer» C. Pig | |