

{"id":9615,"date":"2018-02-28T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/data-flair.training\/blogs\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2021-05-09T13:08:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T07:38:20","slug":"flume-interview-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/data-flair.training\/blogs\/flume-interview-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Flume Interview Questions and Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today we will discuss in this article, &#8220;Top Flume Interview Questions and answers&#8221; we are providing Advanced Apache Flume Interview Questions that will help you in cracking your interview as well as to acquire dream career as Apache Flume Developer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we talk about the current world, there are a lot of opportunities in Flume Development in many reputed companies across the world. On the basis of research, we can say Flume has a market share of about 70.37%. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hence, we have huge opportunity to move ahead in our career in <strong>Apache Flume<\/strong> Development. However, to go for Flume jobs it is important to learn Apache Flume in deep. So, if you&#8217;re looking for Flume Interview Questions &amp; Answers for Experienced or Freshers, you are at right place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is Apache Flume<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we know, while it comes to efficiently and reliably collect, aggregate and transfer massive amounts of data from one or more sources to a centralized data source we use Apache Flume. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, it can ingest any kind of data including log data, event data, network data, social-media generated data, email messages, message queues etc since data sources are customizable in Flume. Now, after this introduction, let&#8217;s begin the learning by following\u00a0Flume Interview Questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flume Interview Questions and Answers<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a list of some prominent Flume Interview Questions. Let\u2019s discuss all possible Flume Interview Questions:<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 1. What is Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A distributed service for collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data, is Flume.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 2. Explain the core components of Flume.<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There are various core components of Flume available. They are \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Event- \u00a0Event\u00a0is the single log entry or unit of data which we transport further.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Source- \u00a0Source is the component by which data enters Flume workflows.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sink- For transporting data to the desired destination sink is responsible.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Channel-Channel is nothing but a \u00a0duct between the Sink and Source.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agent- Agent is\u00a0what we have known\u00a0as any JVM that runs Flume.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Client- Client transmits the event to the source that operates with the agent.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Q 3. Which is the reliable channel in Flume to ensure that there is no data loss?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Among the 3 channels JDBC, FILE and MEMORY, FILE Channel is the most reliable channel.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 4. How can Flume be used with HBase?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There are two types of\u00a0<strong>HBase<\/strong>\u00a0sinks. So, we can use Flume with HBase using one of the two HBase sinks \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">HBaseSink (org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.HBaseSink)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> supports secure HBase clusters and also the novel HBase IPC that was introduced in the version HBase 0.96.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AsyncHBaseSink (org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.AsyncHBaseSink) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can easily make non-blocking calls to HBase, it means it has better performance than HBase sink.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 5. What is an Agent?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In Apache Flume, an independent daemon process (JVM) is what we call an agent. At first, it receives events from clients or other agents. Afterwards, it forwards it to its next destination that is sink or agent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note that, it is possible that Flume can have more than one agent. Also, refer the below image to understand the Flume Agent.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 6. Is it possible to leverage real-time analysis of the big data collected by Flume directly? If yes, then explain how?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By using <strong>MorphlineSolrSink<\/strong> we can extract, transform and load Data from Flume in real-time into Apache Solr servers.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 7. What is a channel?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A transient store that receives the events from the source also buffers them till they are consumed by sinks is what we call a Flume channel. To be very specific it acts as a bridge between the sources and the sinks in Flume.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Basically, these channels can work with any number of sources and sinks are they are fully transactional.<br \/>\nLike \u2212 JDBC channel, File system channel, Memory channel, etc.<\/p>\n<p><b>Q 8. Explain about the different channel types in Flume. Which channel type is faster?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are \u00a03 types of different built-in channel in Flume. they are-<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MEMORY Channel \u2013 Through this MEMORY Channel Events are read from the source into memory and passed to the sink.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JDBC Channel \u2013 It stores the events in an embedded Derby database.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FILE Channel \u2013It writes the contents to a file on the file system after reading the event from a source. The file is deleted only after the contents are successfully delivered to the sink.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While we come to the fastest channel, it is the MEMORY Channel. It is the fastest channel among the three. Although, make sure it has the risk of data loss. <\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 9. What is Interceptor?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To alter\/inspect flume events which are transferred between source and channel, we use Flume Interceptors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 10. Explain about the replication and multiplexing selectors in Flume.<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Basically, to handle multiple channels, we use Channel selectors. Moreover, an event can be written just to a single channel or to multiple channels, on the basis of Flume header value. By default, it is the Replicating selector, if a channel selector is not specified to the source. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although, the same event is written to all the channels in the source\u2019s channels list, by using the replicating selector. \u00a0However, when the application has to send different events to different channels, we use Multiplexing channel selector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flume Interview Questions for Freshers- Q. 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Flume Interview Questions for Experience- Q. 4,10<\/strong><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 11. Does Apache Flume provide support for third-party plug-ins?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Apache Flume has plug-in based architecture. Basically, it can load data from external sources and transfer it to external destinations most of the data analysts use it.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 12. Apache Flume support third-party plugins also?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes, it has 100% plugin-based architecture. Basically, it can load and ships data from external sources to an external destination which separately from Flume. HeFileRollSinknce, \u00a0for streaming data most of the BigData analyst use this tool.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 13. Differentiate between FileSink and FileRollSink<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Basically, HDFS File Sink writes the events into the <strong>Hadoop Distributed File System \u2013 HDFS<\/strong> while File Roll Sink stores the events into the local file system.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 14. Which is the Reliable Channel in Flume to ensure that there is no data loss?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FILE Channel is the most reliable channel.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 15. Can Flume can distribute data to multiple destinations?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0Flume generally supports multiplexing flow. Here, event flows from one source to multiple channel and multiple destinations. Basically, it is achieved by defining a flow multiplexer.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 16. How can multi-hop agent be set up in Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To setup Multi-hop agent in Apache Flume we use Avro RPC Bridge mechanism.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 17. Why are we using Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Basically, to get log data from social media sites most often Hadoop developer use this too. However, for aggregating and moving the very large amount of data it is developed by Cloudera. Majorly, \u00a0we use it to gather log files from different sources and asynchronously persist in the Hadoop cluster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 18. What is FlumeNG?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> FlumeNG is nothing but a real-time loader for streaming your data into Hadoop. Basically, it stores data in HDFS and HBase. Thus, if we want to get started with FlumeNG, it improves on the original flume.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 19. Can flume provide 100% reliability to the data flow?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Flume generally offers the end-to-end reliability of the flow. Also, it uses a transactional approach to the data flow, by default.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, Source and sink encapsulate in a transactional repository provides the channels. Moreover, to pass reliably from end to end flow these channels are responsible. Hence, it offers 100% reliability to the data flow.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 20. What is sink processors?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We generally sink processors to invoke a particular sink from the selected group of sinks. Moreover, also to create failover paths for our sinks or load balance events across multiple sinks from a channel we use sink processors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flume Interview Questions for Freshers- Q. 12,13,14,15,16,17,20<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Flume Interview Questions for Experience- Q. 18,19<\/strong><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 21. Explain what are the tools used in Big Data?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There are several tools available in Big Data. It includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Hadoop<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Hive<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Pig<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Flume<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mahout<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Sqoop<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Q 22. Agent communicate with other Agents?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Here, each agent runs independently. As a result, there is no single point of failure.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 23. Does Apache Flume provide support for third-party plug-ins?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes it offers support for third-party plug-ins.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 24. What are the complicated steps in Flume configurations?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> we can process streaming data, by using Flume. Hence, if started once, there is no stop\/end of the process. asynchronously it can flows data from source to HDFS via the agent. First of all, the agent should know individual components how they are connected to load data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thus, to load streaming data configuration is the trigger. for example, consumerkey, consumersecret accessToken, and accessTokenSecret are key factors to download data from Twitter.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 25. Which is the reliable channel in Flume to ensure that there is no data loss?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The most reliable channel is FILE Channel among the 3 channels JDBC, FILE, and MEMORY.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 26. What are Flume core components?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Source, Channels, and sink are core components in Apache Flume.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nQ 27. What are the Data extraction tools in Hadoop?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sqoop can be used to transfer data between RDBMS and HDFS. Flume can be used to extract the streaming data from social media, weblog etc and store it on HDFS.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 28. What are the important steps in the configuration?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0Configuration file is the heart of the Apache Flume\u2019s agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every Source must have at least one channel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, every Sink must have only one channel<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every component must have a specific type.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Q 29. Is there any difference between FileSink and FileRollSink?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> yes, there is a major difference between HDFS FileSink and FileRollSink. That HDFS File Sink writes the events into the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) while File Roll Sink stores the events into the local file system.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 30. What is Apache Spark?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Apache <strong>Spark<\/strong> is a general-purpose &amp; lightning fast cluster computing system. It provides high-level API. For example, <strong>Java<\/strong>, Scala, <strong>Python<\/strong> and <strong>R<\/strong>. Apache Spark is a tool for Running Spark Applications. Spark is 100 times faster than <strong>Big Data <\/strong>Hadoop and 10 times faster than accessing data from disk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flume Interview Questions for Freshers- Q. 21,22,23,25,26,27,28,30<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Flume Interview Questions for Experience- Q. 24,29<\/strong><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 31. Explain data flow in Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Ans.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Basically, we use a framework Flume to transfer log data into HDFS. However, we can say events and log data are generated by the log servers. Also, these servers have Flume agents running on them. Moreover, these agents receive the data from the data generators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be more specific, in Flume there is an intermediate node which collects the data in these agents, that nodes are what we call as Collector. As same as agents, in Flume, there can be multiple collectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Afterwards, from all these collectors the data will be aggregated and pushed to a centralized store. Such as HBase or HDFS. \u00a0To understand better, refer the following Flume Data Flow diagram, it explains Flume Data Flow model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 32. Types of Data Flow in Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer. <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Multi-hop Flow<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn Hadoop from Industry Experts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basically, before reaching the final destination there can be multiple agents and an event may travel through more than one agent, within Flume. This is what we call as multi-hop Data flow in Flume.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fan-out Flow<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In very simple language when data transfers or the data flow from one source to multiple channels that is what we call fan-out flow. Basically, in Flume Data flow, it is of two categories \u2212<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1. Replicating<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is the data flow where the data will be replicated in all the configured channels.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2. Multiplexing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On defining Multiplexing we can say the data flow where the data will be sent to a selected channel which is mentioned in the header of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fan-in Flow<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it comes to fan-in flow it is known as the data flow in which the data will be transferred from many sources to one channel.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 33. What is flume agent?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> However, in Apache Flume, an independent daemon process (JVM) is what we call a\u00a0<strong>Flume Agent<\/strong>. At first, it receives events from clients or other agents. Afterwards, it forwards it to its next destination that is sink or agent. Note that, it is possible that Flume can have more than one agent. <\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 34. What is Flume event?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The basic unit of the data which is transported inside Flume is what we call a\u00a0<strong>Flume Events.<\/strong> Generally, it contains a payload of the byte array. Basically, we can transport it from the source to the destination accompanied by optional headers.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 35. Why Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Apart from collecting logs from distributed systems, \u00a0it is also capable of performing other use cases. like<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It Collects readings from array of sensors<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, it collects impressions from custom apps for an ad network<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, it collects it readings from network devices in order to monitor their performance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, preserves the reliability, scalability, manageability, and extensibility while it serves maximum number of clients with higher QoS<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Q 36. can you explain about configuration files?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Basically, in the local configuration file, \u00a0the agent configuration stores. Moreover, it comprises of each agents source, sinks, and channel information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, each core components such as source, sink, and channel have properties such as name, type, and set properties.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 37. Tell any two feature Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Any two features of Flume:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Data Flow<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Hadoop environments, Flume works with streaming data sources. Especially\u00a0which generates continuously. Such as log files.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Routing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generally, Flume looks at the payload such as stream data or event. Also, construct a routing which is apt.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 38. Any two Limitations of Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Any two limitations of \u00a0Flume<\/span><b>: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Weak Ordering Guarantee<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it comes to ordering guarantee, Apache flume is very weak in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Duplicacy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In many scenarios, Flume does not guarantee that message reaching is unique. However, it is a possibility that duplicate messages might pop in at times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 39. What are the similarities and differences between Apache Flume and Apache Kafka?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> While it comes to Flume it pushes messages to their destination via its Sinks. However, \u00a0With Kafka, you need to consume messages from Kafka Broker using a Kafka Consumer API.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 40. Explain Reliability and Failure Handling in Apache Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To guarantee reliable message delivery Flume NG, it uses channel-based transactions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, while a message moves from one agent to another, two transactions are started, one on the agent that delivers the event and the other to the agent that receives the event. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, \u00a0it must receive success indication from the receiving agent in order for the sending agent to commit its transaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basically, the receiving agent only returns a success indication if its own transaction commits properly first. This ensures guaranteed delivery semantics between the hops that the flow makes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flume Interview Questions for Freshers- Q. 31,32,33,34,35,37,38<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Flume Interview Questions for Experience- Q. 36,39,40<\/strong><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 41. What is Flume Client?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Ans. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those which generates events and then sent it to one or more agents is what we call \u00a0<strong>Flume Client<\/strong>.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 42. What are Channel Selectors? <\/b><br \/>\n<b>Ans. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To determine which channel we should select to transfer the data in case of multiple channels, we use Channel Selector.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 43. What are possible types of Channel Selectors?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Ans. \u00a0Channel Selectors<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0are generally of two types \u2212<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Default channel selectors \u2212 Replicating channel selectors which replicate all the events in each channel is what we call Default channel selectors.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Multiplexing channel selectors \u2212 The Channel selectors which decide the channel to send an event based on the address in the header of that event are Multiplexing channel selectors.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Q 44. Can you define what is Event Serializer in Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it comes to convert a Flume event into another format for output, we use Apache Flume event serializer mechanism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 45. What is Streaming \/ Log Data?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it comes to <strong>Streaming \/ Log Data<\/strong>, it is the data produced by various data sources and usually require to be analyzed. Data Sources like, applications servers, social networking sites, cloud servers and enterprise servers. So, that data is generally in the form of log files or events.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 46. \u00a0What are Tools available to send the streaming data to HDFS?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There are several <strong>Tools available to send the streaming data to HDFS<\/strong>. They are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook\u2019s Scribe<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Apache Kafka<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apache Flume<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Q 47. How to Use HDFS put Command for Data Transfer from Flume to HDFS?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Basically, \u00a0in handling the log data, the main challenge is to move the logs produced by multiple servers to Hadoop environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order to insert data into Hadoop and read from it, Hadoop File System Shell offers commands. So, by using put command we can insert the data:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$ Hadoop fs \u2013put \/path of the required file \u00a0\/path in HDFS where to save the file<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q 48. What are use cases of Apache Flume?<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Answer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are several use cases:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> While we want to acquire data from a variety of source and store into Hadoop system, we use Apache Flume.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Whenever we need to handle high-velocity and high-volume data into Hadoop system, we go for Apache Flume.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>It also helps in Reliable delivery of data to the destination.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the velocity and volume of data increases, Flume turned as a scalable solution that can run quite easily just by adding more machine to it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Without incurring any downtime Flume dynamically configures the various components of the architecture.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Flume Interview Questions for Freshers- Q. 41,42,43,44,45,46<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Flume Interview Questions for Experience- Q. 47<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conclusion: Flume Interview Questions<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a result, here we have studied the detailed list of latest Flume Interview Questions and the best possible answers to these Flume Interview Questions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thus, we really hope these Flume Interview Questions will help you to understand the nature of Flume Interview Questions you may face during the interview. 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