Hadoop General Interview Questions
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Explain what is sequencefileinputformat?

321

Mention how hadoop is different from other data processing tools?

304

Mention what are the most common input formats defined in hadoop?

310

Mention what is rack awareness?

284

Mention what is the difference between an rdbms and hadoop?

299

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

303

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

480

Explain what is storage and compute nodes?

343

Explain how jobtracker schedules a task?

314

Explain what happens when hadoop spawned 50 tasks for a job and one of the task failed?

318

What happens in text format?

328

Explain how is data partitioned before it is sent to the reducer if no custom partitioner is defined in hadoop?

334

Explain what is a task tracker in hadoop?

281

Explain what is speculative execution?

282

Explain what happens in text format?

404


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Un-Answered Questions { Hadoop General }

What are the different commands used to startup and shutdown Hadoop daemons?

324


What does jps command do in Hadoop?

379


If we want to copy 10 blocks from one machine to another, but another machine can copy only 8.5 blocks, can the blocks be broken at the time of replication?

521


Is there another way to check whether Namenode is working?

289


What is Mapper in Hadoop?

334






What is KeyValueTextInputFormat in Hadoop?

333


Hadoop achieves parallelism by dividing the tasks across many nodes, it is possible for a few slow nodes to rate-limit the rest of the program and slow down the program. What mechanism Hadoop provides to combat this?

331


What do you understand by unit and ()in scala?

353


What is purpose of RecordWriter in Hadoop?

354


what happens when namenode goes down during file read operation in hadoop?

387


What happen if one of the datanodes has much slower cpu?

297


What is data cleansing?

324


Where is hadoop-env.sh file present?

323


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

313


What are the port numbers of job tracker?

376