Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations
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Question 1 of 40
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ZooKeeper allows distributed processes to coordinate with each other through registers, known as . . . . . . . .
Correct Answer: Option A — znodes
Detailed Academic Explanation:
znodes is the correct answer to “ZooKeeper allows distributed processes to coordinate with each other through registers, known as . . . . . . . .”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 2 of 40
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User accounts may be altered and dropped using the . . . . . . . . Query Language.
Correct Answer: Option B — Cassandra
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Cassandra is the correct answer to “User accounts may be altered and dropped using the . . . . . . . . Query Language.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 3 of 40
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BigDecimal is comprised of a . . . . . . . . with an integer 'scale' field.
Correct Answer: Option B — BigInteger
Detailed Academic Explanation:
BigInteger is the correct answer to “BigDecimal is comprised of a . . . . . . . . with an integer 'scale' field.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 4 of 40
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Helprace is using ZooKeeper on a . . . . . . . . cluster in conjunction with Hadoop and HBase.
Correct Answer: Option A — 3-node
Detailed Academic Explanation:
3-node is the correct answer to “Helprace is using ZooKeeper on a . . . . . . . . cluster in conjunction with Hadoop and HBase.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 5 of 40
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. . . . . . . . does not support the notion of enclosing characters that may include field delimiters in the enclosed string.
Correct Answer: Option D — Hive
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Hive is the correct answer to “. . . . . . . . does not support the notion of enclosing characters that may include field delimiters in the enclosed string.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 6 of 40
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Cassandra creates a . . . . . . . . for each table, which allows you to symlink a table to a chosen physical drive or data volume.
Correct Answer: Option B — subdirectory
Detailed Academic Explanation:
subdirectory is the correct answer to “Cassandra creates a . . . . . . . . for each table, which allows you to symlink a table to a chosen physical drive or data volume.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 7 of 40
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. . . . . . . . is used to decommission more than one RegionServer at a time by creating sub-znodes.
Correct Answer: Option B — /hbase/draining
Detailed Academic Explanation:
/hbase/draining is the correct answer to “. . . . . . . . is used to decommission more than one RegionServer at a time by creating sub-znodes.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 8 of 40
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. . . . . . . . is a Cassandra feature that optimizes the cluster consistency process.
Correct Answer: Option B — Hinted handoff
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Hinted handoff is the correct answer to “. . . . . . . . is a Cassandra feature that optimizes the cluster consistency process.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 9 of 40
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. . . . . . . . can be configured per table for non-QUORUM consistency levels.
Correct Answer: Option A — Read repair
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Read repair is the correct answer to “. . . . . . . . can be configured per table for non-QUORUM consistency levels.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 10 of 40
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You need to have . . . . . . . . installed before running ZooKeeper.
Correct Answer: Option A — Java
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Java is the correct answer to “You need to have . . . . . . . . installed before running ZooKeeper.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 11 of 40
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ClobRef is a wrapper that holds a CLOB either directly or a reference to a file that holds the . . . . . . . . data.
Correct Answer: Option A — CLOB
Detailed Academic Explanation:
CLOB is the correct answer to “ClobRef is a wrapper that holds a CLOB either directly or a reference to a file that holds the . . . . . . . . data.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 12 of 40
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Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source . . . . . . . . database.
Correct Answer: Option B — NoSQL
Detailed Academic Explanation:
NoSQL is the correct answer to “Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source . . . . . . . . database.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 13 of 40
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Sqoop direct mode does not support imports of . . . . . . . . columns.
Correct Answer: Option D — All of the mentioned
Detailed Academic Explanation:
All of the mentioned is the correct answer to “Sqoop direct mode does not support imports of . . . . . . . . columns.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 14 of 40
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ZooKeeper itself is intended to be replicated over a sets of hosts called . . . . . . . .
Correct Answer: Option B — ensemble
Detailed Academic Explanation:
ensemble is the correct answer to “ZooKeeper itself is intended to be replicated over a sets of hosts called . . . . . . . .”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 15 of 40
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The Email & Apps team of . . . . . . . . uses ZooKeeper to coordinate sharding and responsibility changes in a distributed email client.
Correct Answer: Option C — Rackspace
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Rackspace is the correct answer to “The Email & Apps team of . . . . . . . . uses ZooKeeper to coordinate sharding and responsibility changes in a distributed email client.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 16 of 40
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ZooKeeper is used for configuration, leader election in Cloud edition of . . . . . . . .
Correct Answer: Option A — Solr
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Solr is the correct answer to “ZooKeeper is used for configuration, leader election in Cloud edition of . . . . . . . .”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 17 of 40
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A . . . . . . . . grants initial permissions, and subsequently a user may or may not be given the permission to grant/revoke permissions.
Correct Answer: Option B — superuser
Detailed Academic Explanation:
superuser is the correct answer to “A . . . . . . . . grants initial permissions, and subsequently a user may or may not be given the permission to grant/revoke permissions.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 18 of 40
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Cassandra marks data to be deleted using . . . . . . . .
Correct Answer: Option A — tombstone
Detailed Academic Explanation:
tombstone is the correct answer to “Cassandra marks data to be deleted using . . . . . . . .”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 19 of 40
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Data can be imported in maximum . . . . . . . . file formats.
Correct Answer: Option B — 2
Detailed Academic Explanation:
2 is the correct answer to “Data can be imported in maximum . . . . . . . . file formats.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 20 of 40
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If you set the inline LOB limit to . . . . . . . . all large objects will be placed in external storage.
Correct Answer: Option A — 0
Detailed Academic Explanation:
0 is the correct answer to “If you set the inline LOB limit to . . . . . . . . all large objects will be placed in external storage.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 21 of 40
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. . . . . . . . tool can list all the available database schemas.
Correct Answer: Option B — sqoop-list-databases
Detailed Academic Explanation:
sqoop-list-databases is the correct answer to “. . . . . . . . tool can list all the available database schemas.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 22 of 40
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A . . . . . . . . determines which data centers and racks nodes belong to it.
Correct Answer: Option B — Snitch
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Snitch is the correct answer to “A . . . . . . . . determines which data centers and racks nodes belong to it.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 23 of 40
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Which of the guarantee is provided by Zookeeper?
Correct Answer: Option D — Reliability
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Reliability is the correct answer to “Which of the guarantee is provided by Zookeeper”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 24 of 40
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ZooKeeper is especially fast in . . . . . . . . workloads.
Correct Answer: Option B — read-dominant
Detailed Academic Explanation:
read-dominant is the correct answer to “ZooKeeper is especially fast in . . . . . . . . workloads.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 25 of 40
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To register a "watch" on a znode data, you need to use the . . . . . . . . commands to access the current content or metadata.
Correct Answer: Option A — stat
Detailed Academic Explanation:
stat is the correct answer to “To register a "watch" on a znode data, you need to use the . . . . . . . . commands to access the current content or metadata.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 26 of 40
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The . . . . . . . . znode is used for synchronizing the changes made to the _acl_ table by the grant/revoke commands.
Correct Answer: Option B — acl
Detailed Academic Explanation:
acl is the correct answer to “The . . . . . . . . znode is used for synchronizing the changes made to the _acl_ table by the grant/revoke commands.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 27 of 40
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. . . . . . . . provides a Couchbase Server-Hadoop connector by means of Sqoop.
Correct Answer: Option A — MemCache
Detailed Academic Explanation:
MemCache is the correct answer to “. . . . . . . . provides a Couchbase Server-Hadoop connector by means of Sqoop.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 28 of 40
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A number of constants used in the client ZooKeeper API were renamed in order to reduce . . . . . . . . collision.
Correct Answer: Option B — namespace
Detailed Academic Explanation:
namespace is the correct answer to “A number of constants used in the client ZooKeeper API were renamed in order to reduce . . . . . . . . collision.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 29 of 40
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Which of the following interface is implemented by Sqoop for recording?
Correct Answer: Option B — SqoopRecord
Detailed Academic Explanation:
SqoopRecord is the correct answer to “Which of the following interface is implemented by Sqoop for recording”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 30 of 40
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How many types of special znodes are present in Zookeeper?
Correct Answer: Option B — 2
Detailed Academic Explanation:
2 is the correct answer to “How many types of special znodes are present in Zookeeper”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 31 of 40
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Zookeeper essentially mirrors the . . . . . . . . functionality exposed in the Linux kernel.
Correct Answer: Option B — inotify
Detailed Academic Explanation:
inotify is the correct answer to “Zookeeper essentially mirrors the . . . . . . . . functionality exposed in the Linux kernel.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 32 of 40
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Sqoop is an open source tool written at . . . . . . . .
Correct Answer: Option C — Microsoft
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Microsoft is the correct answer to “Sqoop is an open source tool written at . . . . . . . .”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 33 of 40
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Which of the following is a singleton instance class?
Correct Answer: Option A — LargeObjectLoader
Detailed Academic Explanation:
LargeObjectLoader is the correct answer to “Which of the following is a singleton instance class”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 34 of 40
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Microsoft uses a Sqoop-based connector to help transfer data from . . . . . . . . databases to Hadoop.
Correct Answer: Option B — SQL Server
Detailed Academic Explanation:
SQL Server is the correct answer to “Microsoft uses a Sqoop-based connector to help transfer data from . . . . . . . . databases to Hadoop.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 35 of 40
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Which of the following class is used for general processing of error?
Correct Answer: Option B — ProcessingException
Detailed Academic Explanation:
ProcessingException is the correct answer to “Which of the following class is used for general processing of error”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 36 of 40
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You configure sample frequency by changing the . . . . . . . . property in the table definition.
Correct Answer: Option B — index_interval
Detailed Academic Explanation:
index_interval is the correct answer to “You configure sample frequency by changing the . . . . . . . . property in the table definition.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 37 of 40
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There are . . . . . . . . types of read requests that a coordinator can send to a replica.
Correct Answer: Option B — three
Detailed Academic Explanation:
three is the correct answer to “There are . . . . . . . . types of read requests that a coordinator can send to a replica.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 38 of 40
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The compression offset map grows to . . . . . . . . GB per terabyte compressed.
Correct Answer: Option A — 1-3
Detailed Academic Explanation:
1-3 is the correct answer to “The compression offset map grows to . . . . . . . . GB per terabyte compressed.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 39 of 40
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. . . . . . . . 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.
Correct Answer: Option B — CassandraAuthorizer
Detailed Academic Explanation:
CassandraAuthorizer is the correct answer to “. . . . . . . . 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.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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Question 40 of 40
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. . . . . . . . has a design policy of using ZooKeeper only for transient data.
Correct Answer: Option C — Hbase
Detailed Academic Explanation:
Hbase is the correct answer to “. . . . . . . . has a design policy of using ZooKeeper only for transient data.”. This question is standard in competitive examination syllabi for Data Ingestion With Sqoop And Flume.
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