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End Term Important Questions — Big Data-1 Notes

End Term Important Questions — PYQ Analysis

Based on an analysis of the last three end-term papers (Dec 2021, Dec 2024, Dec 2025). Questions marked ★ Must Do have appeared in all three papers — treat them as sure-shot questions and prepare them first.

Complete Question Bank (Priority-Wise)

#	Question	Unit	Marks	Times Appeared	Priority
1	Define the characteristics of Big Data (Four/Five V's)	Unit 1	1.5 / 5 / 10	3	★ Must Do
2	What is the role of NameNode and DataNode in HDFS?	Unit 2	1.5 / 10	3	★ Must Do
3	Architecture of HDFS / Draw and explain HDFS Architecture	Unit 2	5 / 10 / 15	3	★ Must Do
4	MapReduce paradigm / Word Count program / MapReduce Architecture	Unit 3	5 / 10 / 15	3	★ Must Do
5	Architecture of YARN / YARN components and job scheduling	Unit 3	5 / 10	3	★ Must Do
6	Building blocks of Hadoop	Unit 2	10	2	★ Must Do
7	Fault tolerance in HDFS / How is high availability achieved in HDFS	Unit 2	5 / 10	3	★ Must Do
8	Differentiate between Hive and Pig / Why Hive is preferred over MapReduce	Unit 4	5 / 1.5	3	★ Must Do
9	Shuffle and Sort mechanism in MapReduce	Unit 3	5	2	Important
10	Role of Job Tracker / Task Tracker in Hadoop	Unit 3	1.5 / 5	3	Important
11	How does the partitioner decide which reducer receives a key?	Unit 3	1.5	2	Important
12	Apache Pig components and role of Pig in the Hadoop ecosystem	Unit 4	5	2	Important
13	Wrapper classes in Java / Concept of Wrapper Classes	Unit 5	5 / 10	2	Important
14	Serialization and Deserialization in Java / Serialize and persist to file	Unit 5	5 / 10 / 15	2	Important
15	Generics in Java / Difference between generics and wrapper classes	Unit 5	5 / 10	2	Important
16	Pseudo-distributed mode configuration of Hadoop cluster	Unit 2	1.5	2	Moderate
17	History of Big Data / Major events in the Big Data era in the 2000s	Unit 1	1.5 / 10	2	Moderate
18	Technology challenges for Big Data / Challenges of unstructured Big Data	Unit 1	1.5	2	Moderate
19	Heartbeat signal in HDFS	Unit 2	1.5	2	Moderate
20	Default block size in HDFS	Unit 2	1.5	2	Moderate
21	Singly linked list to implement Stack and Queue in Java	Unit 5	10	1	Moderate
22	Big Data transforming healthcare and finance sectors	Unit 1	5	1	Moderate
23	Differentiate between GFS and HDFS	Unit 2	5	1	Moderate
24	Generic method syntax in Java / Generic types in Java	Unit 5	1.5	2	Moderate
25	What is serialization / peek() function in Java	Unit 5	1.5	2	Moderate
26	What is Hadoop streaming?	Unit 3	1.5	1	Normal
27	Commodity hardware in Hadoop	Unit 2	1.5	1	Normal
28	MapReduce programming model with real-world example	Unit 3	10	1	Normal
29	Linked list data structure – working and concept of wrapper classes	Unit 5	10 / 5	1	Normal
30	Sort and Shuffle mechanism in MapReduce (short note)	Unit 3	5	2	Important

Exam Predictions Based on PYQ Trends

🔴 Very High Probability (90–95% confidence)

HDFS Architecture with diagram — appeared every year, always a long question (10–15 marks)
MapReduce + Word Count program — the most comprehensive question (15 marks)
5 V's of Big Data — Part-A staple, always 1.5 marks
NameNode and DataNode roles — appears in every paper in Part-A or Part-B
YARN Architecture — repeated across all three papers

🟡 High Probability (70–85% confidence)

Hive vs Pig differentiation — appeared 3x, likely as a 5-mark comparison
Shuffle and Sort mechanism — frequently asked 5-mark question
Building Blocks of Hadoop — appeared twice, 10-mark question
Serialization in Java with code — appeared in two papers
Role of Job Tracker / Task Tracker — 1.5 or 5 marks

🟢 Moderate Probability (50–65% confidence)

Apache Pig architecture and real-world example
Generics vs Wrapper Classes
History of Big Data / milestones
Linked List, Stack, Queue in Java using Generics
GFS vs HDFS differentiation
Challenges of unstructured Big Data
Short note on YARN / Hive and Pig

5-Hour Revision Plan

Hour	Topics
Hour 1	Big Data V's + HDFS Architecture + NameNode/DataNode
Hour 2	MapReduce + Word Count + Shuffle & Sort
Hour 3	YARN + Building Blocks of Hadoop + Fault Tolerance
Hour 4	Hive + Pig + HiveQL vs Pig Latin comparison
Hour 5	Java — Serialization + Generics + Wrapper Classes + diagram review

⚡ Key Numbers to Remember

Fact	Value
HDFS Block Size	128 MB (Hadoop 2.x), 64 MB (Hadoop 1.x)
Replication Factor	3 (default, configurable via dfs.replication)
Heartbeat Interval	Every 3 seconds; node marked dead after 10 min silence
Block Report	Every 6 hours (complete block inventory)
Hadoop Released	2005 (Doug Cutting), open-source 2006
YARN Introduced	Hadoop 2.x (2013), replaced Job Tracker
Spark Speed	Up to 100x faster than MapReduce (in-memory)
Checksum Type	CRC-32C (per-block verification)
Java Serialization	implements Serializable (marker interface)