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Realtime Processing With Apache Spark — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

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

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Question 1 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following language is not supported by Spark?

Question 2 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary role of the Oozie Coordinator Action?

Question 3 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Oozie, what does the term "data-in" represent in a coordinator workflow?

Question 4 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the significance of the Oozie Subworkflow in workflow automation?

Question 5 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Oozie, what is the purpose of the "start" and "end" nodes in a workflow?

Question 6 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the role of the Oozie SLA Alert in workflow automation?

Question 7 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Oozie, what is the primary function of the Oozie Bundle Application Coordinator?

Question 8 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the significance of the Oozie Fork and Join nodes in a workflow?

Question 9 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Oozie, what does the term "end" represent in a workflow action?

Question 10 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the purpose of the Oozie Sharelib Create tool?

Question 11 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In Oozie, what is the role of the "timeout" property in a workflow action?

Question 12 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . generates NGrams and counts frequencies for ngrams, head and tail subgrams.

Question 13 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following Hive commands is not supported by HCatalog?

Question 14 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A float parameter, defaults to 0.0001f, which means we can deal with 1 error every . . . . . . . . rows.

Question 15 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . Collection API allows for even distribution of custom replica properties.

Question 16 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Spark runs on top of . . . . . . . . a cluster manager system which provides efficient resource isolation across distributed applications.

Question 17 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following can be used to launch Spark jobs inside MapReduce?

Question 18 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . transport is required when using a non-blocking server.

Question 19 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Drill also provides intuitive extensions to SQL to work with . . . . . . . . data types.

Question 20 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . provides Java-based indexing and search technology.

Question 21 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The first call on the HCatOutputFormat must be . . . . . . . .

Question 22 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . accepts a table to read data from and optionally a selection predicate to indicate which partitions to scan.

Question 23 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The top-level . . . . . . . . package contains three of the most important specializations in Crunch.

Question 24 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . represent the logical computations of your Crunch pipelines.

Question 25 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The web UI provides information about . . . . . . . . job statistics of the Hama cluster.

Question 26 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is used when you want the sink to be the input source for another operation.

Question 27 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

With HCatalog . . . . . . . . does not need to modify the table structure.

Question 28 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is a single-threaded server using standard blocking I/O.

Question 29 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The HCatalog . . . . . . . . supports all Hive DDL that does not require MapReduce to execute.

Question 30 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Spark SQL provides a domain-specific language to manipulate . . . . . . . . in Scala, Java, or Python.

Question 31 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Drill integrates with BI tools using a standard . . . . . . . . connector.

Question 32 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The . . . . . . . . collocation identifier is integrated into the process that is used to create vectors from sequence files of text keys and values.

Question 33 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . is the default mode if you download Hama.

Question 34 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Flume deploys as one or more agents, each contained within its own instance of . . . . . . . .

Question 35 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is a more compact binary format?

Question 36 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The Crunch APIs are modeled after . . . . . . . . which is the library that Google uses for building data pipelines on top of their own implementation of MapReduce.

Question 37 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following format is similar to TCompactProtocol?

Question 38 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A . . . . . . . . in a social graph is a group of people who interact frequently with each other and less frequently with others.

Question 39 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

. . . . . . . . can be used to generate stats over the results of arbitrary numeric functions.

Question 40 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

PCollection, PTable, and PGroupedTable all support a . . . . . . . . operation.

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