Practice Data Placement Strategies - 1.5 | Week 6: Cloud Storage: Key-value Stores/NoSQL | Distributed and Cloud Systems Micro Specialization
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What defines the number of copies of each piece of data held in a distributed system?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how many copies you would want to prevent data loss.

Question 2

Easy

What does a snitch do in a Cassandra setup?

πŸ’‘ Hint: It relates to understanding where nodes are located.

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Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What is the role of a partitioner in Cassandra?

  • To hash keys
  • To define data schema
  • To manage transactions

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how Cassandra decides where to store data.

Question 2

True or False: A higher replication factor always results in better performance.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the effects of writing data to multiple nodes.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Explain how a low replication factor might affect a Cassandra cluster’s performance during a network partition.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how many safe copies are available if a partition occurs.

Question 2

Design a hypothetical data placement strategy for a global application that needs quick access to user data while ensuring fault tolerance.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how you would leverage both speed and data safety.

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