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CCA-410 · Question #50

How many mappers required for a map reduce, job determine on a cluster running map reduce V1 (MRv1)?

The correct answer is D. The number of mappers is calculated by namenode based on the number of HDFS blocks in the files. The HDFS namenode has the following responsibilities: Coordinating file operations. The namenode directs application clients to datanodes for read operations, and allocates blocks on suitable datanodes for write operations Namespace management. * Maintaining overall health of…

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How many mappers required for a map reduce, job determine on a cluster running map reduce V1 (MRv1)?

Options

  • AThe number mappers is equal to no of input splits calculated by client submitting
  • Bthe developer specifies the number in the job configuration
  • Cthe jobtracker chooses the number based on no of available nodes
  • DThe number of mappers is calculated by namenode based on the number of HDFS blocks in the files

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  • A
    5% (1)
  • B
    9% (2)
  • C
    5% (1)
  • D
    82% (18)

Explanation

The HDFS namenode has the following responsibilities: * Coordinating file operations. The namenode directs application clients to datanodes for read operations, and allocates blocks on suitable datanodes for write operations * Namespace management. * Maintaining overall health of the file system.

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#MapReduce#InputSplits#mapper count#MRv1

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