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HBase Online Quiz
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Q 1 - To locate a piece of data Hbase uses coordinates. A coordinate is made-up of
A - rowId, table name, block address
B - rowid, table name, column name
Answer : C
Explanation
Rowkey ,table name and column name create a unique combination which can identify a piece of data in Hbase.
Q 2 - At the end of a major compaction the number of HFiles of a Hbase table is
A - Equal to number of column families
Answer : A
Explanation
At the end of major compaction one column family gets one HFile.
Q 3 - Retrieving a batch of rows in every RPC call made by an API to a HBase database is called a
Answer : B
Explanation
When a group of records is returned from HBASE database by an API making a RPC call the process is called a scan. The number of rows to be returned by configuring the caching property.
Q 4 - A small chunk of data residing in one machine which is part of a cluster of machines holding one Hbase table is known as
Answer : B
Explanation
A region in Hbase table represents a small chunk of data which is part of a large Hbase table distributed across many servers.
Q 5 - Hbase stores data in
A - A single filesystem available to all RegionServers
B - As many filesystems as the number of regionServers
Answer : A
Explanation
HBase stores its data on a single file system. It assumes all the RegionServers have access to that file system across the entire cluster.
Q 6 - While rows and columns keys are expressed as bytes, version is specified as
Answer : B
Explanation
the version is specified using a long integer. Typically this long contains time instances such as those returned by java.util.Date.getTime()
Q 7 - The length of the name of the column family should be
Answer : B
Explanation
The colun family name should be ideally one character so that metadata associated with a cell is minimum.
Q 8 - Which filer accepts the pagesize as a parameter?
Answer : C
Explanation
This filter gives the query result in different pages using Pagesize parameter.
Q 9 - If one single column family exceeds the maximum file size specified by Hbase configuration then
A - Data load error is encountered
B - The column family is dropped
Answer : D
Explanation
Once the max file size is reached, the region is split into two.
Q 10 - To see all the tables presen tin a user space in Hbase the command used is
Answer : B
Explanation
The list command displays all the tables present in the user space in Hbase