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Total Questions: 20

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

Correct Answer is : CREATE TABLE foo (bar VARCHAR(10))

2. _________ will overwrite any existing data in the table or partition

Correct Answer is : INSERT INTO

3. Hive does not support literals for ______ types.

Correct Answer is : Complex

4. ________ systems are scale-out file-based (HDD) systems moving to more uses of memory in the nodes.

Correct Answer is : NoSQL

5. Point out the correct statement :

Correct Answer is : Hadoop is ideal for the analytical, post-operational, data-warehouse-ish type of workload

6. Hadoop data is not sequenced and is in 64MB to 256MB block sizes of delimited record values with schema applied on read based on:

Correct Answer is : HCatalog

7. __________ are highly resilient and eliminate the single-point-of-failure risk with traditional Hadoop deployments

Correct Answer is : Isilon solutions

8. Point out the wrong statement :

Correct Answer is : NoSQL systems do provide high latency access and accommodate less concurrent users

9. HDFS and NoSQL file systems focus almost exclusively on adding nodes to :

Correct Answer is : Scale out

10. Which is the most popular NoSQL database for scalable big data store with Hadoop ?

Correct Answer is : Hbase

11. The ___________ can also be used to distribute both jars and native libraries for use in the map and/or reduce tasks.

Correct Answer is : DistributedCache

12. HBase provides ___________ like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS.

Correct Answer is : Bigtable

13. _______ refers to incremental costs with no major impact on solution design, performance and complexity.

Correct Answer is : Scale-up

14. The minimum number of row versions to keep is configured per column family via :

Correct Answer is : HColumnDescriptor

15. Point out the correct statement :

Correct Answer is : The default for max versions is 1

16. HBase supports a ____________ interface via Put and Result

Correct Answer is : “bytes-in/bytes-out”

17. One supported data type that deserves special mention are :

Correct Answer is : counters

18. Point out the wrong statement :

Correct Answer is : HBase does not currently support ‘constraints’ in traditional (SQL) database parlance

19. The _________ suffers from the monotonically increasing rowkey problem

Correct Answer is : rowkey

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

Correct Answer is : OpenTSDB