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Total Questions: 20

1. ___________ is a simple xUnit framework that enables you to easily test your Pig scripts.

Correct Answer is : PigXUnit

2. Which of the following will compile the Pigunit ?

Correct Answer is : $pig_trunk ant pigunit-jar

3. PigUnit runs in Pig’s _______ mode by default.

Correct Answer is : local

4. Avro-backed tables can simply be created by using _________ in a DDL statement.

Correct Answer is : “STORED AS AVRO”

5. Point out the correct statement :

Correct Answer is : Avro Bytes type should be defined in Hive as lists of tiny ints

6. Types that may be null must be defined as a ______ of that type and Null within Avro.

Correct Answer is : Union

7. The files that are written by the _______ job are valid Avro files.

Correct Answer is : Hive

8. Point out the wrong statement :

Correct Answer is : The AvroSerde cannot serialize any Hive table to Avro files

9. Use ________ and embed the schema in the create statement.

Correct Answer is : schema.literal

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

Correct Answer is : $SCHEMA

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

Correct Answer is : *hive –hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console*

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

Correct Answer is : ORC

13. An ORC file contains groups of row data called :

Correct Answer is : stripes

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

Correct Answer is : Dictionary

15. Point out the correct statement :

Correct Answer is : Streams are compressed using a codec, which is specified as a table property for all streams in that table

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

Correct Answer is : LOZ

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

Correct Answer is : SET hive.exec.compress.output=false

18. Point out the wrong statement :

Correct Answer is : DECIMAL introduced in Hive 0.11.0 with a precision of 38 digits

19. Integral literals are assumed to be _________ by default.

Correct Answer is : INT

20. Hive uses _____-style escaping within the strings.

Correct Answer is : C