Practice Breaking The Job Into Individual Map And Reduce Tasks (1.4.2.2.2) - Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka
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Breaking the job into individual Map and Reduce tasks

Practice - Breaking the job into individual Map and Reduce tasks

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the primary function of the Map phase?

💡 Hint: Focus on the initial step of the MapReduce process.

Question 2 Easy

What does the Reduce phase output?

💡 Hint: Consider what happens after grouping data.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What is the correct sequence of phases in a MapReduce job?

Reduce
Map
Shuffle
Map
Shuffle
Reduce
Shuffle
Map
Reduce

💡 Hint: Remember the order in which each phase processes data.

Question 2

YARN stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think of the tool managing tasks and resources.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a scenario where data locality dramatically impacts performance in a MapReduce job. How would you optimize the scheduling to improve this?

💡 Hint: Consider how physical proximity to data reduces time delays.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain how a failure in the Map phase can impact the overall job and discuss the recovering process.

💡 Hint: Focus on the resilience mechanisms within the framework.

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