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Your last recorded submission was on 2021-09-06, 06:04 Due date: 2021-09-08, 23:59 IST.
How does an IST
NPTEL online
course work? 1) Consider the following statements:
1 point

Statement 1: The Job Tracker is hosted inside the master and it receives the job execution
Week-0
request from the client.

Week-1
Statement 2: Task tracker is the MapReduce component on the slave machine as there are
multiple slave machines.
Week-2

Only statement 1 is true
Hadoop
Distributed File
Only statement 2 is true
System
Both statements are true
(HDFS) (unit?

Both statements are false
unit=24&lesson=25)

Hadoop
2) __________ is the slave/worker node and holds the user data in the form of Data 1 point
MapReduce Blocks.
1.0 (unit?
unit=24&lesson=26)
NameNode

Data block
Hadoop
MapReduce
Replication
2.0 (Part-I)
DataNode
(unit?
unit=24&lesson=27) 3) _______________works as a master server that manages the file system 1 point
namespace and basically regulates access to these files from clients, and it also keeps track of
Hadoop
where the data is on the Data Nodes and where the blocks are distributed essentially.
MapReduce
2.0 (Part-II)

Name Node
(unit?
unit=24&lesson=28)
Data block

Replication

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MapReduce
Data Node
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X (unit? 4) The number of maps in MapReduce is usually driven by the total size 1 point
unit=24&lesson=29) of____________

Week 2:
Inputs
Lecture

Outputs
material (unit?
unit=24&lesson=30)
Tasks

Feedback for

None of the mentioned
Week 2 (unit?
5) True or False ?
The main duties of task tracker are to break down the receive job 1 point
unit=24&lesson=31)
that is big computations in small parts, allocate the partial computations that is tasks to the slave
Quiz: Week 2 nodes monitoring the progress and report of task execution from the slave.
: Assignment-
2
True
(assessment?
False
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6) Point out the correct statement in context of YARN: 1 point
Week-3

YARN is highly scalable.
 

YARN enhances a Hadoop compute cluster in many ways

YARN extends the power of Hadoop to incumbent and new technologies found within the
data center

All of the mentioned

7) Consider the pseudo-code for MapReduce's WordCount example (not shown here). 1 point
Let's now assume that you want to determine the frequency of phrases consisting of 3 words
each instead of determining the frequency of single words. Which part of the pseudo-code do
you need to adapt ?

Only map()

Only reduce()

map() and reduce()

The code does not have to be changed

8) The namenode knows that the datanode is active using a mechanism known as 1 point

Heartbeats

Datapulse

h-signal

Active-pulse

9) True or False ?
1 point

HDFS performs replication, although it results in data redundancy?

True

False

10) _______________function processes a key/value pair to generate a set of 1 point

intermediate key/value pairs.

Map

Reduce

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