Big Data Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is a IdentityMapper and IdentityReducer in MapReduce ?

636

Explain Working of MapReduce?

664

Write a Mapreduce Program for Character Count ?

710

how to proceed to write your first mapreducer program?

1029

How to set the number of reducers?

1037

Developing a MapReduce Application?

656

Different ways of debugging a job in MapReduce?

803

Explain the Reducer's reduce phase?

705

Why do we use HDFS for applications having large data sets and not when there are lot of small files?

1 2120

What are the functions of NameNode?

1 1403

How to configure hadoop to reuse JVM for mappers?

791

mapper or reducer?

627

How to resolve IOException: Cannot create directory

675

Does Pig support multi-line commands?

570

How to change replication factor of files already stored in HDFS?

707


Un-Answered Questions { Big Data }

How does pig work?

355


What is sink processors?

73


What is network topology strategy?

50


How to get the single file as the output from MapReduce Job?

373


Describe DataStaxOpsCenter?

88






Why do fires spark?

191


What is the default block size in Hadoop 1 and in Hadoop 2? Can it be changed?

953


What is nagios is used in ambari?

86


Are spark dataframes immutable?

182


When Hive is run in embedded mode

1578


How can you add the arbitrary key-value pairs in your mapper?

991


Describe join() operation. How is outer join supported?

176


Is hadoop required for data science?

403


What is a map in pig?

324


What is HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System?

652