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SATHYABAMA
INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(Deemed to be University)
(Established under section 3 of UGC Act,1956)

Course & Branch :B.E/B.Tech - CSE/IT

Title of the Paper :Big Data (Elective) Max. Marks :80
Sub. Code :SIT1606(2012/2013/2014) Time : 3 Hours
Date :30/04/2018 Session :FN
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(NOTE: Assume relevant data, if found missing)

PART – A (10 x 2 = 20)
Answer All the Questions
1. What is Big Data?

2. List the sources of Big Data.

3. What is HDFS?

4. List the components of HDFS.

5. State the difference between combiners and reducers.

6. What are the key points of Hadoop storage strategy?

7. List any four Hive commands.

8. Write down the pig command for load and store data.
9. What is YARN?

10. When reading or writing data from a client using the API, there
are a handful of optimizations should be considered to gain the
best performance. List of the best practice options.

PART – B (5 x 12 = 60)
Answer All the Questions
11. Explain the characteristics of Big Data.
(or)
12. (a) Why is Big Data important? (2)
(b) Explain the Big Data Enterprise Model with required
diagram. (10)

13. (a) What is HDFS Block size? (2)

(b) Explain Hadoop architecture with neat diagram. (10)
(or)
14. How Name Node Handles data node failures? Explain with
example.

15. What is Writable & Comparable interface? Explain.

(or)
16. Write the concept of advanced Map Reduce concepts.

17. Discuss in detail about architecture of Hive with neat diagram.

(or)
18. (a) What are the benefits of Apache pig over Map Reduce?
(b) What are different data types in pig Latin?

19. What are the components of Apache H Base? Explain it.

(or)
20. (a) What is Apache Oozie? (2)
(b) What are the features of Apache H Base? (10)