In this Apache Hadoop Interview Questions and Answer blog, we are going to cover all the frequently asked Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers that will help you to crack the interview.<\/p>\n
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1) What is Apache Hadoop? Why is Hadoop essential for every Big Data application?<\/strong> 2) What are the main features and Characteristics of Hadoop which make it the most popular and powerful Big Data tool?<\/strong> 3) What are the core components of Apache Hadoop?<\/strong> 4) What are the configuration files in Hadoop?<\/strong> 5) What are the different modes in which we can configure\/install Hadoop?<\/strong> 6) Explain how Hadoop cluster hardware planning and provisioning is done?<\/strong> 7) How to create a user in Hadoop?<\/strong> 8) What are the major differences between Hadoop 2 and Hadoop 3?<\/strong> 9) What is a single node cluster in Hadoop? for what all purposes Hadoop run on a single node cluster?<\/strong> 10) How to specify more than one path for storage in Hadoop<\/strong> 11) What is a single point of failure in Hadoop 1 and how is\u00a0it resolved in Hadoop 2?<\/strong> 12) What is JPS? Why is it used in Hadoop?<\/strong> 13) What is the difference between Apache Hadoop and RDBMS?<\/strong> 14) What is HDFS – Hadoop Distributed File System?<\/strong> 15) What is the key difference between NameNode and DataNode in Hadoop?<\/strong> 16) What do you mean by metadata in HDFS? Where is it stored in Hadoop?<\/strong> 17) What is a block in Hadoop HDFS? What should be the block size to get optimum performance from the Hadoop cluster? <\/strong> 18) What is Small File Problem in Hadoop? How can it be resolved?<\/strong> 19) Why HDFS performs replication, although it results in data redundancy?<\/strong> 20) What is the procedure to create users in HDFS and how to allocate Quota to them?<\/strong> 21) Why HDFS store data using commodity hardware despite the higher chance of failures?<\/strong> 22) Ideally what should be replication factor in a Hadoop cluster?<\/strong> 23) What is NameNode? How NameNode tackles Datanode failures in Hadoop?<\/strong> 24) Does HDFS allow a client to read a file which is already opened for writing?<\/strong> 25) How does HDFS ensure the Data Integrity of data blocks stored in HDFS?<\/strong> 26) How often DataNode sends heartbeat to NameNode in Hadoop?<\/strong> 27) What happens if the block in HDFS is corrupted?<\/strong> 28) If I create a folder in HDFS, will there be metadata created corresponding to the folder? If yes, what will be the size of metadata created for a directory?<\/strong> 29) How data or file is read in HDFS?<\/strong> 30) Can multiple clients write into an HDFS file concurrently?<\/strong> 31) How to change the replication factor of data which is already stored in HDFS? <\/strong> 32) How HDFS client divide the file into the block while storing inside HDFS?<\/strong> 33) What is throughput? How does HDFS provide good throughput?<\/strong> 34) What is MapReduce in Hadoop?<\/strong> 35) What is the need of MapReduce in Hadoop?<\/strong> 36) What is Mapper? How can we compress Mapper output in Hadoop?<\/strong> 37) How to set the number of mappers for a MapReduce job?<\/strong> 38) Explain the sequence of execution of all the components of MapReduce like a map, reduce, recordReader, split, combiner, partitioner, sort, shuffle.<\/strong> 39) What is the difference between Reducer and Combiner in Hadoop MapReduce?<\/strong> 40) How to configure the number of the Combiner in MapReduce?<\/strong> 41) In MapReduce how to change the name of the output file from part-r-00000?<\/strong> 42) How to create a custom key and custom value in MapReduce Job?<\/strong> 43) How to optimize MapReduce Job?<\/strong> 44) How to specify more than one directory as input to the MapReduce Job?<\/strong> 45) What is Rack Awareness? What is its need in Hadoop?<\/strong> 46) How is security achieved in Apache Hadoop?<\/strong> 47) What is Erasure Coding in Hadoop?<\/strong> 48) Why do we need Hadoop Archives? How is it created?<\/strong> 49) What is Slot in Hadoop v1? Why was it removed from Hadoop v2?<\/strong> 50) What is CAP Theorem? What aspects does Hadoop support from this theorem?<\/strong> If you like this blog post on Hadoop interview Question and answer or if you have any query regarding any answer, drop a comment in the comment section below and our support team will get back to you.<\/p>\n What Next?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this Apache Hadoop Interview Questions and Answer blog, we are going to cover all the frequently asked Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers that will help you to crack the interview. 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