Apache HDFS Hadoop Distributed File System Interview Questions
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How data or file is written into Hadoop HDFS?

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In HDFS, how Name node determines which data node to write on?

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What is Secondary NameNode in Hadoop HDFS?

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How to restart NameNode or all the daemons in Hadoop HDFS?

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Why HDFS performs replication, although it results in data redundancy in Hadoop?

33

Can multiple clients write into a Hadoop HDFS file concurrently?

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On what basis name node distribute blocks across the data nodes in HDFS?

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Why is Reading done in parallel and writing is not in HDFS?

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Can multiple clients write into an HDFS file concurrently in hadoop?

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How to create Users in hadoop HDFS?

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How to transfer data from Hive to HDFS?

31

Why HDFS stores data using commodity hardware despite the higher chance of failures in hadoop?

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What is Hadoop Distributed File System- HDFS?

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What is throughput in HDFS?

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How to split single hdfs block into partitions rdd?

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What do you mean by meta information in hdfs?

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What is Fault Tolerance in HDFS?

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Does HDFS allow a client to read a file which is already opened for writing in hadoop?

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What is a block in Hadoop HDFS? What should be the block size to get optimum performance from the Hadoop cluster?

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If the source data gets updated every now and then, how will you synchronize the data in hdfs that is imported by sqoop?

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What is the difference between Input Split and an HDFS Block?

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What is the difference between MapReduce engine and HDFS cluster?

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What are the main properties of hdfs-site.xml file?

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What do you mean by meta data in hdfs? List the files associated with metadata.

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What is the module in HDFS?

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What should be the HDFS Block size to get maximum performance from Hadoop cluster?

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Explain how are file systems checked in hdfs?

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What is the importance of dfs.namenode.name.dir in HDFS?

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Can we have different replication factor of the existing files in hdfs?

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What is the difference between input split and hdfs block?

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