HBase Online Quiz
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Q 1 - Columns in Hbase are organized to
Answer : B
Explanation
In Hbase columns are organized to column families.
Q 2 - Hbase creates a new version of a record during
Answer : D
Explanation
All the three events of creating,modifying and Deleting a record create a new version of the record inHbase.
Q 3 - The data in a cell in Hbase table is identified using the four coordinates. Three of which are − rowkey,column family and column qualifier. The fourth coordinate used to identify each value in a cell is
Answer : B
Explanation
In every cell Hbase stores the version number for each piece of data along with the value. So the version number is the fourth coordinate which identifies the exact piece of data.
Q 4 - When a region becomes bigger in size, it
Answer : D
Explanation
The region gets split into small regions when it grows bigger in size.
Q 5 - In a Map-Side join, we take rows from one table and map it with rows from the other table. The size of one of the table should be
B - Half the size of the other table
Answer : A
Explanation
If you join two datasets where at least one of them can fit in memory of the map task,then load the smaller dataset into a hash-table so the map tasks can access it while iterating over the other dataset. In these cases, you can skip the Shuffle and Reduce Steps entirely and emit your final
output from the Map Step.
Q 6 - In the standalone mode Hbase runs on
Answer : A
Explanation
In standalone mode Hbase runs only on the local file system.
Q 7 - The schema level changes to table or column families(like region size, block size etc) are reflected
A - Immediately after the changes
B - Only after a major compaction
Answer : B
Explanation
Only after a major compaction and the StoreFiles get re-written the schema level changes are available.
Q 8 - The class which ised to pool client API instances to the Hbase cluster is
Answer : D
Explanation
The Htable pool is used to pool the client API instances to the Hbase cluster.
Q 9 - The metadata of region is accessed using the file named
Answer : C
Explanation
The file .regioninfo stores the metadata information.
Q 10 - In which scenario nothing is written in the WAL on HBase?
Answer : D
Explanation
during the bulk load process nothing gets written to the WAL.