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Mapreduce Programming Model — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

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Question 1 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary function of the MapReduce programming model in Hadoop?

Question 2 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In the MapReduce model, what does the Map phase handle?

Question 3 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What does the Shuffle phase in MapReduce involve?

Question 4 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the role of the Combiner in the MapReduce model?

Question 5 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which component in MapReduce is responsible for sorting and grouping data?

Question 6 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the Partitioner in MapReduce?

Question 7 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In MapReduce, what does the term "Reducer" refer to?

Question 8 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the significance of the Hadoop MapReduce job tracker?

Question 9 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What does the MapReduce "Map" function do?

Question 10 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary purpose of the MapReduce "Reduce" function?

Question 11 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What does the term "InputFormat" represent in MapReduce?

Question 12 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which phase in MapReduce is responsible for reading input data?

Question 13 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the MapReduce "Combine" phase?

Question 14 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the function of the MapReduce "OutputFormat"?

Question 15 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In MapReduce, what is the purpose of the Map task?

Question 16 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the MapReduce "Partitioner"?

Question 17 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In MapReduce, what does the term "Map" refer to?

Question 18 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary function of the MapReduce "Sort" phase?

Question 19 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In the MapReduce programming model, what is the role of the Hadoop TaskTracker?

Question 20 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the MapReduce "OutputCommitter"?

Question 21 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the function of the MapReduce "Shuffle" phase?

Question 22 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What does the term "Combiner" represent in the context of MapReduce?

Question 23 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What does the MapReduce "Reducer" function do?

Question 24 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the significance of the MapReduce "Map" phase?

Question 25 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In MapReduce, what is the purpose of the "InputSplit"?

Question 26 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the role of the Hadoop Secondary NameNode in MapReduce?

Question 27 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the function of the MapReduce "Combine" phase?

Question 28 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary purpose of the MapReduce "Sort and Shuffle" phase?

Question 29 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the MapReduce "InputFormat"?

Question 30 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The . . . . . . . . option allows you to copy jars locally to the current working directory of tasks and automatically unjar the files.

Question 31 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Mapper implementations are passed the JobConf for the job via the . . . . . . . . method.

Question 32 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Although the Hadoop framework is implemented in Java, MapReduce applications need not be written in . . . . . . . .

Question 33 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Running a . . . . . . . . program involves running mapping tasks on many or all of the nodes in our cluster.

Question 34 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

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

Question 35 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The number of maps is usually driven by the total size of . . . . . . . .

Question 36 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Input to the . . . . . . . . is the sorted output of the mappers.

Question 37 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A . . . . . . . . node acts as the Slave and is responsible for executing a Task assigned to it by the JobTracker.

Question 38 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following phases occur simultaneously?

Question 39 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following class is provided by the Aggregate package?

Question 40 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

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

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