Cloud Data Engineering
Week 1 Quiz
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Question 1
What is Moores Law?
You got it! “From careful observation of an emerging trend, Moore extrapolated that computing would dramatically increase in power, and decrease in relative cost, at an exponential pace” – Intel.
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Question 2
What is one characteristic of a distributed system?
You got it! A distributed system can be eventually consistent as described in the CAP theorem.
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Question 3
Which of the following is a feature of Big Data?
You got it! Big Data can involve a large volume of Data.
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Question 4
What problem does the variety of Big Data describe?
You got it! A common problem in Big Data is the variety of Data.
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Question 5
What Big Data problem does velocity describe?
You got it! The speed the data is written to a cloud system.
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Question 6
Why is a Map-Reduce system used to process Big Data?
You got it! Map-Reduce system spread work across nodes.
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Question 7
What type of system is Spark?
Spark is a Big Data system that does Map-Reduce.
Spark is a Big Data system that does Map-Reduce.
Spark is a Big Data system that can analyze data in real-time.
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Question 8
What alternatives to CPUs exist to address Moore’s Law ending?
You got it! GPUs are capable of doing highly parallel workloads.
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Question 9
Why would an SSD drive speed up a Relational Database query?
You got it! Relational Databases are sensitive to Disk I/O limitations.
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Question 10
What is an example of a software engineering best practice?
Continuous Delivery is a software engineering best practice.
