Explore topic-wise MCQs in Apache Hadoop.

This section includes 73 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Apache Hadoop knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

51.

Hive does not support literals for ______ types.

A. Scalar
B. Complex
C. INT
D. CHAR
Answer» C. INT
52.

One supported data type that deserves special mention are :

A. money
B. counters
C. smallint
D. tinyint
Answer» C. smallint
53.

_________ will overwrite any existing data in the table or partition

A. INSERT WRITE
B. INSERT OVERWRITE
C. INSERT INTO
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
54.

Serialization of string columns uses a ________ to form unique column values.

A. Footer
B. STRIPES
C. Dictionary
D. Index
Answer» D. Index
55.

Which of the following statement will create column with varchar datatype ?

A. CREATE TABLE foo (bar CHAR(10))
B. CREATE TABLE foo (bar VARCHAR(10))
C. CREATE TABLE foo (bar CHARVARYING(10))
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» C. CREATE TABLE foo (bar CHARVARYING(10))
56.

Which of the following will prefix the query string with parameters:

A. SET hive.exec.compress.output=false
B. SET hive.compress.output=false
C. SET hive.exec.compress.output=true
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. SET hive.compress.output=false
57.

Integral literals are assumed to be _________ by default.

A. SMALL INT
B. INT
C. BIG INT
D. TINY INT
Answer» C. BIG INT
58.

Use ________ and embed the schema in the create statement.

A. schema.literal
B. schema.lit
C. row.literal
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» B. schema.lit
59.

To force Hive to be more verbose, it can be started with :

A. *hive –hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console*
B. *hive –hiveconf hive.subroot.logger=INFO,console*
C. *hive –hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFOVALUE,console*
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. *hive –hiveconf hive.subroot.logger=INFO,console*
60.

An ORC file contains groups of row data called :

A. postscript
B. stripes
C. script
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. script
61.

________ was designed to overcome limitations of the other Hive file formats.

A. ORC
B. OPC
C. ODC
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. OPC
62.

_______ is a lossless data compression library that favors speed over compression ratio.

A. LOZ
B. LZO
C. OLZ
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. LZO
63.

_______ is interpolated into the quotes to correctly handle spaces within the schema.

A. $SCHEMA
B. $ROW
C. $SCHEMASPACES
D. $NAMESPACES
Answer» B. $ROW
64.

_______ can change the maximum number of cells of a column family.

A. set
B. reset
C. alter
D. select
Answer» D. select
65.

The ________ class provides the getValue() method to read the values from its instance.

A. Get
B. Result
C. Put
D. Value
Answer» C. Put
66.

__________ does re-write data and pack rows into columns for certain time-periods.

A. OpenTS
B. OpenTSDB
C. OpenTSD
D. OpenDB
Answer» C. OpenTSD
67.

The _________ suffers from the monotonically increasing rowkey problem

A. rowkey
B. columnkey
C. counterkey
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» B. columnkey
68.

HBase uses the _______ File System to store its data.

A. Hive
B. Imphala
C. Hadoop
D. Scala
Answer» D. Scala
69.

__________ class adds HBase configuration files to its object.

A. Configuration
B. Collector
C. Component
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. Collector
70.

_________ is the main configuration file of HBase.

A. hbase.xml
B. hbase-site.xml
C. hbase-site-conf.xml
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. hbase-site-conf.xml
71.

________ communicate with the client and handle data-related operations.

A. Master Server
B. Region Server
C. Htable
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» C. Htable
72.

Which of the following is not a table scope operator ?

A. MEMSTORE_FLUSH
B. MEMSTORE_FLUSHSIZE
C. MAX_FILESIZE
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. MEMSTORE_FLUSHSIZE
73.

You can delete a column family from a table using the method _________ of HBAseAdmin class.

A. delColumn()
B. removeColumn()
C. deleteColumn()
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» D. all of the mentioned