Explore topic-wise MCQs in Hadoop.

This section includes 46 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Hadoop knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

_________ is a Cassandra feature that optimizes the cluster consistency process.

A. Hinted handon
B. Hinted handoff
C. Tombstone
D. Hinted tomb
Answer» C. Tombstone
2.

A __________ determines which data centers and racks nodes belong to it.

A. Client requests
B. Snitch
C. Partitioner
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Partitioner
3.

The import-tables tool imports a set of tables from an RDBMS to?

A. Hive
B. Sqoop
C. HDFS
D. Mapreduce
Answer» D. Mapreduce
4.

Cassandra uses a protocol called _______ to discover location and state information.

A. gossip
B. intergos
C. goss
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» B. intergos
5.

Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source _______ database.

A. SQL
B. NoSQL
C. NewSQL
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» C. NewSQL
6.

Sqoop can also import the data into Hive by generating and executing a ____________ statement to define the data’s layout in Hive.

A. SET TABLE
B. CREATE TABLE
C. INSERT TABLE
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» C. INSERT TABLE
7.

Sqoop direct mode does not support imports of ______ columns.

A. BLOB
B. LONGVARBINARY
C. CLOB
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
8.

Which of the following interface is implemented by Sqoop for recording?

A. SqoopWrite
B. SqoopRecord
C. SqoopRead
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. SqoopRead
9.

Sqoop can also import the data into Hive by generating and executing a ____________ statement to define the datas layout in Hive.

A. SET TABLE
B. CREATE TABLE
C. INSERT TABLE
D. All of the above
Answer» C. INSERT TABLE
10.

When ___________ contents exceed a configurable threshold, the memtable data, which includes indexes, is put in a queue to be flushed to disk.

A. subtable
B. memtable
C. intable
D. memorytable
Answer» C. intable
11.

Which of the following class is used for general processing of error?

A. LargeObjectLoader
B. ProcessingException
C. DelimiterSet
D. LobSerializer
Answer» C. DelimiterSet
12.

Which of the following is a singleton instance class?

A. LargeObjectLoader
B. FieldMapProcessor
C. DelimiterSet
D. LobSerializer
Answer» B. FieldMapProcessor
13.

ClobRef is a wrapper that holds a CLOB either directly or a reference to a file that holds the ______ data.

A. CLOB
B. BLOB
C. MLOB
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. BLOB
14.

Microsoft uses a Sqoop-based connector to help transfer data from _________ databases to Hadoop.

A. PostreSQL
B. SQL Server
C. Oracle
D. MySQL
Answer» C. Oracle
15.

Using ___________ file means you don’t have to override the SSL_CERTFILE environmental variables every time.

A. qlshrc
B. cqshrc
C. cqlshrc
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
16.

Which of the following argument is not supported by import-all-tables tool?

A. –class-name
B. –package-name
C. –database-name
D. –table-name
Answer» B. –package-name
17.

There are _________ types of read requests that a coordinator can send to a replica.

A. two
B. three
C. four
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» C. four
18.

Data in the commit log is purged after its corresponding data in the memtable is flushed to an _________

A. SSHables
B. SSTable
C. Memtables
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Memtables
19.

Client-to-node encryption protects data in flight from client machines to a database cluster using ___________

A. SSL
B. SSH
C. SSN
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. SSH
20.

Cassandra marks data to be deleted using _________

A. tombstone
B. combstone
C. tenstone
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. combstone
21.

BigDecimal is comprised of a ________ with an integer ‘scale’ field.

A. BigInt
B. BigInteger
C. MediumInt
D. SmallInt
Answer» C. MediumInt
22.

For each SSTable, Cassandra creates _________ index.

A. memory
B. partition
C. in memory
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» C. in memory
23.

_________ tool can list all the available database schemas.

A. sqoop-list-tables
B. sqoop-list-databases
C. sqoop-list-schema
D. sqoop-list-columns
Answer» C. sqoop-list-schema
24.

ZooKeeper’s architecture supports high ____________ through redundant services.

A. flexibility
B. scalability
C. availability
D. interactivity
Answer» D. interactivity
25.

The Email & Apps team of ___________ uses ZooKeeper to coordinate sharding and responsibility changes in a distributed email client.

A. Katta
B. Helprace
C. Rackspace
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
26.

ZooKeeper is used for configuration, leader election in Cloud edition of ______________

A. Solr
B. Solur
C. Solar101
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. Solur
27.

How many types of special znodes are present in Zookeeper?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» C. 3
28.

To register a “watch” on a znode data, you need to use the _______ commands to access the current content or metadata.

A. stat
B. put
C. receive
D. gets
Answer» B. put
29.

_______ has a design policy of using ZooKeeper only for transient data.

A. Hive
B. Imphala
C. Hbase
D. Oozie
Answer» D. Oozie
30.

Which of the following is not a services provided by ZooKeeper?

A. Naming service
B. Identity Service
C. Leader election
D. Cluster management
Answer» C. Leader election
31.

Sqoop is written in?

A. C
B. C++
C. Java
D. hadoop
Answer» D. hadoop
32.

Which of the following is correct challenges that are faced by distributed applications?

A. Race condition
B. Deadlock
C. consistency
D. both a and b
Answer» E.
33.

The active Hadoop configuration is loaded from $HADOOP_HOME/conf/, unless the $HADOOP_CONF_DIR environment variable is unset.

A. True
B. False
C. May be True or False
D. Can't Say
Answer» C. May be True or False
34.

Is Apache Sqoop is an open-source tool?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Depends on License
D. Can't Say
Answer» B. No
35.

Which of the following is a benefits of distributed applications?

A. Scalability
B. Transparency
C. Reliability
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
36.

Sqoop standsfor?

A. SQL to Hadoop
B. SQL to Hbase
C. MySQL to Hadoop
D. SQL Hadoop
Answer» B. SQL to Hbase
37.

Data processed by Scoop can be used for?

A. Hbase
B. HDFS
C. Mapreduce
D. MahOut
Answer» D. MahOut
38.

__________ is one of many possible IAuthorizer implementations and the one that stores permissions in the system_auth.permissions table to support all authorization-related CQL statements.

A. CassandraAuth
B. CassandraAuthorizer
C. CassAuthorizer
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» C. CassAuthorizer
39.

_________ can be configured per table for non-QUORUM consistency levels.

A. Read repair
B. Read damage
C. Write repair
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. Read damage
40.

If the table has been configured with the __________ property, the coordinator node for the read request will retry the request with another replica node.

A. rapid_retry
B. speculative_retry
C. speculative_rapid
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. speculative_rapid
41.

The java package structure has changed from com.yahoo.zookeeper* to ___________

A. apache.zookeeper
B. org.apache.zookeeper
C. org.apache.zookeeper.package
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» C. org.apache.zookeeper.package
42.

ZooKeeper allows distributed processes to coordinate with each other through registers, known as ___________

A. znodes
B. hnodes
C. vnodes
D. rnodes
Answer» B. hnodes
43.

A number of constants used in the client ZooKeeper API were renamed in order to reduce ________ collision.

A. value
B. namespace
C. counter
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. counter
44.

ZooKeeper itself is intended to be replicated over a sets of hosts called ____________

A. chunks
B. ensemble
C. subdomains
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. subdomains
45.

ZooKeeper is especially fast in ___________ workloads.

A. write
B. read-dominant
C. read-write
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. read-write
46.

Which of the guarantee is provided by Zookeeper?

A. Interactivity
B. Flexibility
C. Scalability
D. Reliability
Answer» E.