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Data Processing With Pig — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

Practice high-yield Computer Science & IT MCQs on Data Processing With Pig — Part 1 with worked academic solutions for PPSC, FPSC, CSS, PMS, NTS.

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Question 1 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is Apache Pig in the context of Hadoop?

Question 2 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the purpose of the LOAD statement?

Question 3 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary role of the Pig Latin scripting language in Apache Pig?

Question 4 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what does the term "Relation" refer to?

Question 5 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the FILTER statement in Apache Pig?

Question 6 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the purpose of the GROUP BY statement?

Question 7 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary role of the Pig UDF (User Defined Function)?

Question 8 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the purpose of the DISTINCT statement?

Question 9 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the significance of the FOREACH statement in Apache Pig?

Question 10 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what does the term "Bag" refer to?

Question 11 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the ORDER BY statement in Apache Pig?

Question 12 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the role of the SPLIT statement?

Question 13 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary function of the Pig Latin LOAD statement?

Question 14 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the purpose of the JOIN statement?

Question 15 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the role of the Pig Latin DUMP statement in Apache Pig?

Question 16 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the Pig Latin STORE statement in Apache Pig?

Question 17 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the significance of the COGROUP statement?

Question 18 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary role of the Pig Latin ILLUSTRATE statement?

Question 19 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the function of the Pig Latin UNION statement?

Question 20 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the Pig Latin AVG() function?

Question 21 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the primary function of the Pig Latin TOKENIZE function?

Question 22 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the role of the Pig Latin CROSS statement in Apache Pig?

Question 23 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the purpose of the Pig Latin FLATTEN operator?

Question 24 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary function of the Pig Latin RANK() function?

Question 25 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the significance of the CROSS statement?

Question 26 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the Pig Latin FILTER statement?

Question 27 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what does the term "PiggyBank" refer to?

Question 28 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary role of the Pig Latin SUM() function?

Question 29 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Pig, what is the purpose of the Pig Latin SAMPLE statement?

Question 30 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the role of the Pig Latin SPLIT statement in Apache Pig?

Question 31 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Pig operates in mainly how many nodes?

Question 32 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

You can run Pig in batch mode using . . . . . . . .

Question 33 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Pig Latin statements are generally organized in one of the following ways?

Question 34 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function is used to read data in PIG?

Question 35 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

You can run Pig in interactive mode using the . . . . . . . . shell.

Question 36 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is the default mode?

Question 37 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following will run pig in local mode?

Question 38 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

$ pig -x tez_local ... will enable . . . . . . . . mode in Pig.

Question 39 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . operator is used to review the schema of a relation.

Question 40 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following operator is used to view the map reduce execution plans?

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