1.

Which of the following is not a cloud storage provider mentioned in

the passage?
A) Dropbox
B) Google Drive
C) OneDrive
D) iCloud

2. According to the passage, which of the following is not an advantage

of cloud storage?
A) Security concerns
B) Portability
C) Cheaper than buying physical storage
D) Convenient data sharing between multiple devices and users

3. Which of the following best describes the term 'data pipeline' as used
in the passage?
A) A framework for distributing data processing
B) A series of steps for storing raw data
C) A tool for visualizing data flows
D) A set of data-processing elements moving data from source to
destination, often transforming it from raw to analytics-ready format.
4. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT one of the
basic steps of a data pipeline?
A) Collection
B) Transformation
C) Ingestion
D) Delivery

5. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a characteristic of an

effective data pipeline according to the passage?
A) Interactive visualizations
B) Scalable performance
C) Extensible based on standards
D) Support for both batch processing and data stream processing

6. According to the passage, which type of RAID has the highest fault
tolerance?
A) RAID 1
B) RAID 6
C) RAID 5
D) RAID 0
7. Which generation of cloud storage involved file servers for storing,
sharing, and replicating large files?
A) Object Storage
B) First Generation
C) Network-Attached Storage
D) Storage-Area Networks

8. Which cloud file system is mentioned as an example that provides a

hierarchical storage system with shared access?
A) Amazon EBS
B) Amazon S3
C) NFS
D) Google File System

9. According to the passage, the default storage location for data in Hive
is
A) /user/data
B) /apps/hive
C) /user/hive/warehouse
D) /hive
10. Which of the following best describes the purpose of ZooKeeper
according to the passage?
A) Data processing engine for Spark
B) Exposes primitives for synchronization, configuration maintenance,
and groups/naming.
C) Distributed file system for HDFS
D) Batch processing framework for MapReduce

11. Which of the following is NOT a deployment option for Apache

Spark mentioned in the passage?
A) Hadoop YARN
B) HBase
C) Kubernetes
D) Standalone Deploy Mode

12. According to the passage, which type of offloading is where specific

parts are always executed on the cloud?
A) Edge offloading
B) Dynamic offloading
C) Incremental offloading
D) Static offloading
13. Which of the following best describes the scope of edge computing
according to the passage?
A) Caching data closer to users
B) Processing data at network boundaries
C) Extends cloud capabilities to the edge of any network.
D) Offloading tasks to local devices

14. Which of the following is mentioned as a challenge in securing PaaS

in the passage?
A) Limited control over infrastructure
B) Vendor lock-in concerns
C) Compliance with industry standards
D) Integration with microservices

15. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT one of the
key modules of cloud security?
A) Network security
B) Identity and access management
C) Data anonymization
D) Data encryption
16. Which of the following API security best practices is NOT mentioned
in the passage?
A) API documentation
B) Secure authentication
C) Input data validation
D) Encrypted data transmission

17. Which component of the MapReduce framework is responsible for

summarizing and yielding final results?
A) Combiner phase
B) Shuffle phase
C) Reduce phase
D) Map phase

18. According to the passage, which of the following is an advantage of

using Apache Pig?
A) Tasks need to be parallelized manually
B) It makes it simple to do tasks on big sets of data, and even complex
tasks are written in a way that's easy to understand and manage.
C) It requires learning a new programming language
D) It does not support nested data types
19. Which type of file system is HDFS?
A) Object storage
B) Distributed file system
C) Local file system
D) Network file system

20. According to the passage, which component of HDFS is responsible

for storing metadata information?
A) DataNodes
B) NameNode
C) Secondary NameNode
D) Client
21. Which of the following best describes the difference between static
and dynamic offloading according to the passage?
A) Static offloading is where specific parts are always executed on the
cloud, while dynamic offloading is the decision at runtime if a part is
executed locally or remotely.
B) Static offloading caches data at the edge while dynamic offloading
processes it locally
C) Static offloading partitions tasks statically while dynamic offloading
distributes them dynamically
D) The passage does not describe the difference between static and
dynamic offloading

22. According to the passage, which component of YARN is responsible

for negotiating resources with the Resource Manager?
A) Client
B) Resource Manager
C) Node Manager
D) Application Master
23. Which type of cloud computing relies on a thin native client
accessing a centralized platform in the cloud?
A) Edge computing
B) Fog computing
C) Mobile cloud computing
D) Mist computing
Answer Sheet
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. B
8. C
9. C
10. B
11. B
12. D
13. C
14. A
15. C
16. A
17. C
18. B
19. B
20. B
21. A
22. D
23. C