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Advanced Mapreduce Concepts — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

Practice high-yield Computer Science & IT MCQs on Advanced Mapreduce Concepts — Part 2 with worked academic solutions for PPSC, FPSC, CSS, PMS, NTS.

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Exam-Level PPSC FPSC CSS PMS NTS
Verified for Commission Syllabus • Oct 14, 2026
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Question 1 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following adds a configuration resource?

Question 2 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following statement can be used to get the storage policy of a file or a directory?

Question 3 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is an input format for reading data from a relational database, using JDBC.

Question 4 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The key, a . . . . . . . . is the byte offset within the file of the beginning of the line.

Question 5 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The Job makes a copy of the . . . . . . . . so that any necessary internal modifications do not reflect on the incoming parameter.

Question 6 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is the output produced by TextOutputFor mat, Hadoop default OutputFormat.

Question 7 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is a data migration tool added for archiving data.

Question 8 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is added for supporting writing single replica files in memory.

Question 9 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The CapacityScheduler supports . . . . . . . . queues to allow for more predictable sharing of cluster resources.

Question 10 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is another implementation of the MapRunnable interface that runs mappers concurrently in a configurable number of threads.

Question 11 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Users can bundle their Yarn code in a . . . . . . . . file and execute it using jar command.

Question 12 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In . . . . . . . . the default job is similar, but not identical, to the Java equivalent.

Question 13 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The simplest way to do authentication is using . . . . . . . . command of Kerberos.

Question 14 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In order to turn on RPC authentication in hadoop, set the value of hadoop.security.authentication property to . . . . . . . .

Question 15 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

For running hadoop service daemons in Hadoop in secure mode . . . . . . . . principals are required.

Question 16 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Administrators typically define parameters as final in . . . . . . . . for values that user applications may not alter.

Question 17 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following method is used to get user-specified job name?

Question 18 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is a variant of SequenceFileInputFormat that converts the sequence file's keys and values to Text objects.

Question 19 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following command runs ResourceManager admin client?

Question 20 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is used to list out the storage policies?

Question 21 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The configuration file must be owned by the user running . . . . . . . .

Question 22 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . checks whether the given key is deprecated.

Question 23 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . used by YARN framework which defines how any container launched and controlled.

Question 24 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The . . . . . . . . requires that paths including and leading up to the directories specified in yarn.nodemanager.local-dirs.

Question 25 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The . . . . . . . . is the ultimate authority that arbitrates resources among all the applications in the system.

Question 26 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is the base class for all implementations of InputFormat that use files as their data source.

Question 27 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is used for writing blocks with single replica in memory.

Question 28 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following class provides access to configuration parameters?

Question 29 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

An . . . . . . . . is responsible for creating the input splits, and dividing them into records.

Question 30 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is the default output format?

Question 31 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following has high storage density?

Question 32 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Apache Hadoop YARN stands for . . . . . . . .

Question 33 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

MapReduce has undergone a complete overhaul in hadoop is . . . . . . . .

Question 34 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . takes node and rack locality into account when deciding which blocks to place in the same split.

Question 35 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . class allows you to specify the InputFormat and Mapper to use on a per-path basis.

Question 36 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The . . . . . . . . is a framework-specific entity that negotiates resources from the ResourceManager.

Question 37 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . method clears all keys from the configuration.

Question 38 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The . . . . . . . . is responsible for allocating resources to the various running applications subject to familiar constraints of capacities, queues etc.

Question 39 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

An input . . . . . . . . is a chunk of the input that is processed by a single map.

Question 40 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is useful for iterating the properties when all deprecated properties for currently set properties need to be present.

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