Practice Mapper Function Signature (1.2.1) - Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka
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Mapper Function Signature

Practice - Mapper Function Signature

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the primary role of the Mapper function in MapReduce?

💡 Hint: Think about the MapReduce workflow.

Question 2 Easy

Define what an intermediate key-value pair is.

💡 Hint: Consider it as an output of the Mapper.

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Question 1

What is the output of the Mapper function?

Intermediate key-value pairs
Direct output files
Function status logs

💡 Hint: Consider what data gets passed to the Reducer.

Question 2

True or False: A pure function in MapReduce can have side effects that affect other tasks.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about how tasks communicate.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Consider a dataset of lines of text. Design a Mapper function that counts occurrences of each character in the text, specifying how the output would be structured.

💡 Hint: Remember to think about both the input and expected outputs.

Challenge 2 Hard

How would you modify a standard Mapper function if the input data was very large? What optimizations could you implement?

💡 Hint: Think about how Mappers can break down tasks for efficiency.

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