Big Data Interview Questions
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What is Sqoop Import? Explain its purpose?

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What is the default file format to import data using Apache Sqoop?

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How can I import large objects (BLOB and CLOB objects) in Apache Sqoop?

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How can you execute a free-form SQL query in Sqoop to import the rows in a sequential manner?

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Does Apache Sqoop have a default database?

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How will you list all the columns of a table using Apache Sqoop?

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Name a few import control commands. How can Sqoop handle large objects?

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How can we import data from particular row or column? What is the destination types allowed in Sqoop import command?

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When to use –target-dir and when to use –warehouse-dir while importing data?

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What is the significance of using –compress-codec parameter?

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Can free-form SQL queries be used with Sqoop import command? If yes, then how can they be used?

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What is the importance of eval tool?

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How can you import only a subset of rows from a table?

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What is the advantage of using –password-file rather than -P option while preventing the display of password in the sqoop import statement?

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What do you mean by Free Form Import in Sqoop?

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Un-Answered Questions { Big Data }

Can you tell us how many daemon processes run on a hadoop system?

342


Name three data source available in SparkSQL

208


What are the parameters of mappers and reducers?

227


What is the use of “ResultSet execute(Statement statement)” method?

53


What is the difference between spark and hive?

198






Explain repository in apache ambari?

72


What are the components of presto architecture?

5


What happens when you submit spark job?

184


Does Pig support multi-line commands?

565


Do we need to install spark in all nodes?

187


What is heartbeat in hdfs? Explain.

367


Which laptop is best for big data?

200


What will be the result when you do cast(‘abc’ as int)?

461


Explain how Hive Deserialize and serialize the data?

434


What do you know about schemardd?

201