250+ TOP MCQs on Hadoop on Microsoft Azure and Answers

Hadoop Multiple Choice Questions on “Hadoop on Microsoft Azure”.

1. Microsoft and Hortonworks joined their forces to make Hadoop available on ___________ for on-premise deployments.
a) Windows 7
b) Windows Server
c) Windows 8
d) Ubuntu

Answer: b
Clarification: Win32 is supported as a development platform.

2. Point out the correct statement.
a) Hadoop has been demonstrated on GNU/Linux clusters with 2000 nodes
b) GNU/Linux is supported as a development and production platform
c) Distributed operation has not been well tested on Win32, so it is not supported as a production platform
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d
Clarification: Microsoft and Hortonworks joined their forces to make Hadoop available on Windows Azure to support big data in the cloud.

3. Hadoop ___________ is a utility to support running external map and reduce jobs.
a) Orchestration
b) Streaming
c) Collection
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: b
Clarification: These external jobs can be written in various programming languages such as Python or Ruby.

4. In Hadoop _____________ go to the Hadoop distribution directory for HDInsight.
a) Shell
b) Command Line
c) Compaction
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b
Clarification: In order to run Hadoop command line from Windows cmd prompt, you need to login to the HDInsight head node using Remote Desktop.

5. Point out the wrong statement.
a) The other flavor of HDInsight interactive console is based on JavaScript
b) Microsoft and Hortonworks have re-implemented the key binaries as executables
c) The distribution consists of Hadoop 1.1.0, Pig-0.9.3, Hive 0.9.0, Mahout 0.5 and Sqoop 1.4.2
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d
Clarification: JavaScript commands are converted to Pig statements.

6. Microsoft Azure HDInsight comes with __________ types of interactive console.
a) two
b) three
c) four
d) five

Answer: a
Clarification: One is the standard Hadoop Hive console, the other one is unique in Hadoop world, it is based on JavaScript.

7. The key _________ command – which is traditionally a bash script – is also re-implemented as hadoop.cmd.
a) start
b) hadoop
c) had
d) hadstrat

Answer: b
Clarification: HDInsight is the framework for the Microsoft Azure cloud implementation of Hadoop.

8. Which of the following individual components are included on HDInsight clusters?
a) Hive
b) Pig
c) Oozie
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d
Clarification: HDInsight provides several configurations for specific workloads, or you can customize clusters using Script Actions.

9. Microsoft .NET Library for Avro provides data serialization for the Microsoft ___________ environment.
a) .NET
b) Hadoop
c) Ubuntu
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a
Clarification: The Microsoft .NET Library for Avro implements the Apache Avro compact binary data interchange format for serialization for the Microsoft .NET environment.

10. Which of the following benefit is not a feature of HDInsight?
a) High availability
b) High reliability
c) High cost
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: c
Clarification: HDInsight clusters are much easier to create than manually configuring Hadoop clusters.