Hadoop General Interview Questions
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What is Identity reducer?

235

What is Chain Mapper?

295

What are the core methods of a Reducer?

255

What are the parameters of mappers and reducers?

227

What is the difference between TextinputFormat and KeyValueTextInputFormat class?

250

How is the splitting of file invoked in Hadoop ?

266

How many InputSplits will be made by hadoop framework?

260

Explain the usage of Context Object?

232

List Hadoop’s three configuration files?

221

What is Distributed Cache in Hadoop?

266

What is the relationship between Jobs and Tasks in Hadoop?

416

Who are ‘Data Scientists’?

227

Tell me some major benefits of Hadoop?

224

What is structured and unstructured data?

248

According to IBM, what are the three characteristics of Big Data?

246


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Name the most common Input Formats defined in Hadoop? Which one is default?

245


What does the file hadoop-metrics.properties do?

282


Define a record reader?

226


Explain what is a task tracker in hadoop?

221


Mention what is data cleansing?

234






Explain how can you check whether namenode is working beside using the jps command?

246


Clarify what is sequence file input format?

271


Mention what are the three modes in which hadoop can be run?

232


Why slaves limited to 4000 in hadoop version 1?

260


Whats the default port that jobtrackers listens ?

279


What is check pointing in hadoop?

248


What does the high availability of a name-node means?

224


what if job tracker machine is down?

277


What is meant by streaming access?

282


What is throughput in Hadoop?

248