ADE ADE Cloud & Big Data Technologies

Question 1

Which AWS service is commonly used as a managed Hadoop and Spark cluster for big data processing?

Accepted Answer

Amazon EMR

Answer

Amazon Redshift

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Amazon Kinesis

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Amazon Glue

Question 2

In Apache Spark, what is the primary distributed data structure used for in-memory processing?

Accepted Answer

RDD

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DataFrame

Answer

Dataset

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DStream

Question 3

Which cloud storage format is optimized for analytical queries due to its columnar storage layout?

Accepted Answer

Parquet

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CSV

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JSON

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XML

Question 4

What is the purpose of a data lake in a modern cloud architecture?

Accepted Answer

To serve as a central repository for raw data in any format

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To store only structured relational data

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To replace the data warehouse entirely

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To cache frequently accessed data for low-latency reads

Question 5

Which GCP service provides a fully managed, serverless big data query engine for analyzing data stored in Google Cloud Storage?

Accepted Answer

BigQuery

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Cloud Spanner

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Cloud Bigtable

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Dataflow

Question 6

In Azure, which service is used to ingest, process, and analyze streaming data in real time?

Accepted Answer

Azure Stream Analytics

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Azure Data Factory

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Azure Synapse Analytics

Answer

Azure Data Lake Storage