Hadoop General Interview Questions
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What are the main features and Characteristics of Hadoop which makes it the most popular and powerful Big Data tool?

280

What are the configuration files in Hadoop?

249

Compare Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark?

229

What are the different modes in which we can configure/install Hadoop?

245

Explain how Hadoop cluster hardware planning and provisioning is done?

277

How to create a user in Hadoop?

228

What are the major differences between Hadoop 2 and Hadoop 3?

238

What is single node cluster in Hadoop? for what all purposes Hadoop run on a single node cluster?

295

How to specify more than one path for storage in Hadoop?

257

What is a single point of failure in Hadoop 1 and how is it resolved in Hadoop 2?

268

What is JPS? Why is it used in Hadoop?

241

What is the key difference between NameNode and DataNode in Hadoop?

247

What is Small File Problem in Hadoop? How can it be resolved?

244

Ideally what should be replication factor in a Hadoop cluster?

258

What is NameNode? How NameNode tackle Datanode failures in Hadoop?

282


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Suppose hadoop spawned 100 tasks for a job and one of the tasks failed. What will hadoop do?

280


Explain how does hadoop classpath plays a vital role in stopping or starting in hadoop daemons?

411


What jobtracker is in hadoop? What are the activities followed by hadoop?

247


What is the difference between namenode and datanode in hadoop?

262


What happen on the namenode when a client tries to read a data file?

248






Explain what is speculative execution?

219


What is Fault Tolerance?

333


Explain how jobtracker schedules a task?

258


What does name-node mean in hadoop?

256


What are the limitations of Hadoop?

249


When should be hadoop archive create?

250


What is a Backup node in Hadoop?

259


What are the port numbers of task tracker?

259


Can you give a detailed overview about the Big Data being generated by Facebook?

254


Can you explain commodity hardware?

243