Introduction to Big Data week 4 Quiz Answer

Introduction to Big Data

Week 4 Quiz Answer

Foundations for Big Data

Q1) Which of the following is the best description of why it is important to learn about the foundations for big data?

Foundations stand the test of time.

Foundations is all that is required to show a mastery of big data concepts.

Foundations allow for the understanding of practical concepts in Hadoop.

Foundations help you revisit calculus concepts required in the understanding of big data.

Q2) What is the benefit of a commodity cluster?

Enables fault tolerance**

Prevents network connection failure

Prevents individual component failures

Much faster than a traditional super computer

Q3) What is a way to enable fault tolerance?

Distributed Computing

System Wide Restart

Better LAN Connection

Data Parallel Job Restart

Q4) What are the specific benefit(s) to a distributed file system?

Large Storage

High Concurrency

Data Scalability

High Fault Tolerance

Q5) Which of the following are general requirements for a programming language in order to support big data models?

Handle Fault Tolerance

Utilize Map Reduction Methods

Support Big Data Operations

Enable Adding of More Racks

Optimization of Specific Data Types

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