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  • What is the compatible version for Hadoop 2.x?

    • a) Java 6
    • b) Java 7
    • c) Java 8
    • d) Java 5

    Answer - b) Java 7

  • What is the compatible version for Hadoop 3.x?

    • a) Java 6
    • b) Java 7
    • c) Java 8
    • d) Java 5

    Answer - c) Java 8

  • How to handle the fault tolerance in Hadoop 2.x?

    • a) Replication
    • b) Erasure Coding
    • c) Data Handling
    • d) Flow control

    Answer - a) Replication

  • How to handle the fault tolerance in Hadoop 3.x?

    • a) Replication
    • b) Erasure Coding
    • c) Data Handling
    • d) Flow control

    Answer - b) Erasure Coding

  • In Hadoop 2.x, what do we need for namenode recovery?

    • a) Erasure Coding
    • b) Java 8
    • c) Manual Intervention
    • d) Data Handling

    Answer - c) Manual Intervention

  • What is the Storage space in Hadoop 3.x comparing Hadoop 2.x?

    • a) 100%
    • b) 200%
    • c) 300%
    • d) 400%

    Answer - b) 200%

  • Which command will be included to print the java.library.path in Hadoop 3.x?

    • a) hadoop jnipath
    • b) hadoop inipath
    • c) hadoop knipath
    • d) hadoop ijnipath

    Answer - a) hadoop jnipath

  • To improve scalability and reliability in Hadoop 3, the YARN Timeline service has been enhanced with

    • a) ATS V1
    • b) ATS V2
    • c) ATS V3
    • d) ATS V4

    Answer - b) ATS V2

  • Hadoop can run on

    • a) Windows
    • b) Linux
    • c) Mac
    • d) Cross-Platform

    Answer - d) Cross-Platform

  • How to control the HDFS replication factor?

    • a) Yarn-site.xml
    • b) Hdfs-site.xml
    • c) Cross-site.xml
    • d) Into-site.xml

    Answer - b) Hdfs-site.xml

  • What is the default size of the distributed cache?

    • a) 10 GB
    • b) 20 GB
    • c) 16 GB
    • d) 32 GB

    Answer - a) 10 GB

  • Which NoSQL database is scalable with Hadoop?

    • a) MongoDB
    • b) Hbase
    • c) Cassandra
    • d) Mysql

    Answer - b) Hbase

  • Which command is used to check inconsistencies in Hadoop?

    • a) Fsck
    • b) Fsk
    • c) Fskc
    • d) Fks

    Answer - a) Fsck

  • In how many nodes pig is operated?

    • a) 1
    • b) 2
    • c) 3
    • d) 4

    Answer - b) 2

  • What is Snappy compression

    • a) GZip
    • b) Bzip2
    • c) LZO
    • d) None of the above

    Answer - c) LZO

  • What is the slowest compression technique in Hadoop?

    • a) GZip
    • b) Bzip2
    • c) LZO
    • d) None of the above

    Answer - b) Bzip2

  • Which is the compression technique to compress 10% to 15% from the best available techniques?

    • a) Bzip2
    • b) LZip
    • c) GZip
    • d) LZO

    Answer - a) Bzip2

  • Which company developed Pig?

    • a) Wipro
    • b) Google
    • c) Yahoo
    • d) Microsoft

    Answer - c) Yahoo

  • How to read Data in Pig?

    • a) Load
    • b) Read
    • c) Write
    • d) Perform

    Answer - a) Load

  • What kind of language is Pig?

    • a) High-Level Language
    • b) Low-level Language
    • c) Mid-Level Language
    • d) All of the Above

    Answer - a) High-Level Language

  • Where do we use HIVE?

    • a) Hadoop Query Engine
    • b) Hadoop SQL Server Interface
    • c) Both a) & b)
    • d) None of the Above

    Answer - c) Both a) & b)

  • How Facebook tackles Big Data on HADOOP?

    • a) Raw Data
    • b) Project
    • c) Prism
    • d) Rojectbid

    Answer - c) Prism

  • What is used for Machine learning on HADOOP?

    • a) HDFS
    • b) Pig
    • c) Mahoot
    • d) CBase

    Answer - c) Mahoot

  • In HADOOP ‘put’ command is used for?

    • a) TO Copy files or directories from local system to HDFS
    • b) To Copy files from HDFS to a local machine
    • c) To Copy files from HDFS to a local system
    • d) To Copy HDFS to HDFS

    Answer - a) TO Copy files or directories from local system to HDFS

  • Spark uses Hadoop in how many ways?

    • a) 3
    • b) 2
    • c) 4
    • d) 1

    Answer - b) 2

  • What is the wrong way for Spark Deployment?

    • a) Spark in MapReduce
    • b) Yarn
    • c) HDFS
    • d) Spark SQL

    Answer - d) Spark SQL

  • Which component is on top of Spark Core?

    • a) Spark SQL
    • b) RDD’s
    • c) Yarn
    • d) All of the Above

    Answer - a) Spark SQL

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