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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #233

You want to build a managed Hadoop system as your data lake. The data transformation process is composed of a series of Hadoop jobs executed in sequence. To accomplish the design of separating storage

The correct answer is B. Allocate sufficient persistent disk space to the Hadoop cluster, and store the intermediate data of that particular Hadoop job on native HDFS. Explanation/Reference: Its google recommended approach to use LocalDisk/HDFS to store Intermediate result and use Cloud Storage for initial and final results.

Submitted by krish.m· Mar 30, 2026Building and operationalizing data processing systems

Question

You want to build a managed Hadoop system as your data lake. The data transformation process is composed of a series of Hadoop jobs executed in sequence. To accomplish the design of separating storage from compute, you decided to use the Cloud Storage connector to store all input data, output data, and intermediary data. However, you noticed that one Hadoop job runs very slowly with Cloud Dataproc, when compared with the on-premises bare-metal Hadoop environment (8-core nodes with 100-GB RAM). Analysis shows that this particular Hadoop job is disk I/O intensive. You want to resolve the issue. What should you do?

Options

  • AAllocate sufficient memory to the Hadoop cluster, so that the intermediary data of that particular Hadoop job can be held in memory
  • BAllocate sufficient persistent disk space to the Hadoop cluster, and store the intermediate data of that particular Hadoop job on native HDFS
  • CAllocate more CPU cores of the virtual machine instances of the Hadoop cluster so that the networking bandwidth for each instance can scale up
  • DAllocate additional network interface card (NIC), and configure link aggregation in the operating system to use the combined throughput when working with

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • A
    22% (5)
  • B
    65% (15)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    9% (2)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: Its google recommended approach to use LocalDisk/HDFS to store Intermediate result and use Cloud Storage for initial and final results.

Topics

#Cloud Dataproc#disk I/O performance#HDFS#intermediate data storage

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