Practice Programming Model: User-defined Functions For Parallelism (1.2) - Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka
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Programming Model: User-Defined Functions for Parallelism

Practice - Programming Model: User-Defined Functions for Parallelism

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does the Mapper function do?

💡 Hint: Think about what happens at the start of data processing.

Question 2 Easy

In which phase do intermediate key-value pairs get sorted?

💡 Hint: This phase occurs between the Map and Reduce phase.

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Question 1

What is the role of the Mapper function?

A. Aggregates values for a key
B. Transforms input records into intermediate pairs
C. Sorts pairs for the Reducer

💡 Hint: Consider what the Mapper does to the input data.

Question 2

True or False: The Shuffle phase is managed by the user.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about who handles these operations.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a MapReduce job to analyze log files for user login counts, outlining the Mapper and Reducer functions.

💡 Hint: Think about how you would collect and aggregate data.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss how fault tolerance is achieved in the MapReduce framework.

💡 Hint: Consider the mechanisms in place for handling task failures.

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