NEW QUESTION 1
A telecommunication company is experiencing high churn rate. They have more than five million customers. They have more than 400TB of call detail records per year. The majority of their customers are prepaid, so they can change the telecom provider any time. In order to remedy the situation, they want to understand the customer behavior. For that reason they want to build the individual profile of each customer. They also want to enrich the profile by incorporating social media data. Given this set of requirements, which of the following would you recommend?

• A. Hadoop
• B. RDBMS
• C. Storm
• D. IBM Cloudant

Answer: C

Explanation:
References:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-twitterstorm/

NEW QUESTION 2
Data high availability is provided by SAN in traditional architectures by employing a level of RAID. What is the Hadoop equivalent?

• A. Data Node
• B. Replication
• C. Quorum Journal Manager
• D. Yarn Resource Manager

Answer: B

Explanation:
References:
http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Big-data-storage-Hadoop-storage- basics

NEW QUESTION 3
Which of the following is NOT a valid Service Level Agreement (SLA) metric?

• A. Mean time between failures
• B. Mean time to repair
• C. Identification to responsible party
• D. Identification of failing component

Answer: D

Explanation:
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_agreement

NEW QUESTION 4
GPFS is recommended when additional levels of control are required. Which of the following requirements can only be supported by GPFS?

• A. There is a requirement where logical isolation and physical isolation need to be supported
• B. There is a requirement for separate clusters for analytics and databases
• C. There is a need to support placing a MapReduce split on one local disk
• D. There is a need to run the NameNode in a separate high availability environment

Answer: A

Explanation:
References: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSPT3X_3.0.0/com.ibm.swg.im.infosphere.biginsights.product.doc/doc/over_filesystem_comparis on.html

NEW QUESTION 5
Which of the following statements regarding Big R is TRUE?

• A. Unless specified otherwise, Big R automatically assumes all data to be integers
• B. Big R’s ‘bigr.frame’ is equivalent to R’s ‘data.frames’
• C. When you execute Big R “apply” function, Big R transparently extracts data out of HDFS into the Big R engine
• D. A data analyst using Big R employs Map Reduce programming principles

Answer: A

Explanation:
Reference:
https://developer.ibm.com/hadoop/docs/biginsights-value-add/big-r/bigr-tutorial/

NEW QUESTION 6
Which of the following statements is true about DB2 BLU?

• A. To move a table from row based into a BLU columnar format you have to take a back up and restore it to a BLU table.
• B. To move a table from row based into a BLU columnar format you need to take it offline and do a one time convert into a BLU table.
• C. To support mixed workload it is necessary to create a shadow copy of the relevant tables.
• D. To support mixed workload it is necessary to create a shadow copy of the database populated with relevant BLU tables.

Answer: B

Explanation:
Reference:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/dm-1406convert-table-db2105/

NEW QUESTION 7
Which of the following is NOT a typical Service Level Agreement (SLA) metric?

• A. Abandonment rate
• B. Average speed to answer
• C. Time service factor
• D. Average response time

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 8
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding cloud computing solutions?

• A. Cloud security is planned, developed, and layered on top of an application after the application development process is complete
• B. Stateless applications are better candidates for cloud services than applications that maintain state
• C. Cloud solutions rely on scaling up (vertical) scaling v
• D. scale out (horizontal) scaling
• E. Server virtualization is a requirement in a cloud implementation

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
A large application vendor wants to port their existing distributed applications to run on Hadoop. In order to be competitive they need to provide monitoring and keep the size of the monitored applications consistent with the configuration. This implies the ability to deploy a replacement, for example, for any failed components. Which of the following would be a workable solution?

• A. Nagios with YARN
• B. Slider with YARN
• C. Oozie with Lucene
• D. OPTIM Performance Manager

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 10
A news organization wants to analyze all the news stories coming in real time and make them available to their users based on the user’s interest. Given this requirement, which of the following would you recommend?

• A. Spark
• B. Hadoop
• C. Netezza
• D. Cloudant

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 11
In a typical Hadoop HA cluster, two separate machines are configured as which of the following?

• A. Data Nodes
• B. Edge Nodes
• C. Name Nodes
• D. None of the Above

Answer: A

Explanation:
Reference:
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HDFSHighAvailabilityWithQJM.html

NEW QUESTION 12
As data architect, understanding where patient data resides, how is it related, and how you define security and privacy policies requires knowledge of each of the following?

• A. PII Data
• B. HIPAA Requirements
• C. Privacy by design
• D. Data storage in HDFS

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 13
Defining your need to enrich existing customer data you realize that you need to process large quantities of Geospatial data and output to your data warehouse in a standard GeoJSON format. Which of the following would provide a business analyst with the desired output?

• A. Big SQL
• B. BigSheets
• C. Hive queries
• D. Text Analytics

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 14
A quality requirement or constraint that a system (or some part of a system) must satisfy is referred to by which of the following?

• A. Define Objective
• B. Non-functional Requirement
• C. Use Case Definition
• D. Service Level Agreement

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 15
Which of the following does NOT consist of collaboration from various organizations to drive innovation and standardization across big data technologies?

• A. Cloudera Enterprise
• B. Hortonworks Data Platform
• C. IBM BigInsights
• D. Pivotal Big Data Suite

Answer: C

Explanation:
Reference:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/business-partner.html

NEW QUESTION 16
What is used to capture client requirements for software selection and to evaluate the initial functional “fit” of a vendor’s software solution to the business needs of the client?

• A. Operational Model
• B. Requirements Matrix
• C. Viability Assessment
• D. Use Case Model

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 17
Considering a service level requirement (SLR) of less than 3 milliseconds, what task must be performed to meet the SLR?

• A. Collect and analyze SNMP MIB data
• B. Survey a representative amount of end users
• C. Measure switch failure frequency
• D. Inquire when prime network hours occur

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 18
As an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), you are tasked with creating a solution to harness the big data to better understand customer sentiments around your client’s product. In order to develop a solution, you want to select the software components that are going to provide the most compatibility with new open source components. In addition to Hadoop and any other software components you may need, which one of the following would you select that is part of the initial release of the Open Data Platform (ODP)?

• A. Spark
• B. Ambari
• C. Hive
• D. HBase

Answer: B

Explanation:
References:
http://hortonworks.com/innovation/open-data-platform/

NEW QUESTION 19
BigInsights is a solution that accomplishes which of the following?

• A. Replaces the traditional Data warehouses
• B. Can exchange information with the traditional Data warehouses only
• C. Includes a connector that enables data exchange between a BigInsights cluster and Netezza appliance in only one way
• D. Supports data exchange with a number of sources

Answer: C

Explanation:
Reference:
https://www- 01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSPT3X_2.1.1/com.ibm.swg.im.infosphere.biginsight s.install.doc/Install.pdf

NEW QUESTION 20
Which of the following big data components makes all decisions regarding the replication of blocks?

• A. Job Tracker
• B. Edge Node
• C. Name Node
• D. Data Node

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 21
Which one of the following statements about Big SQL is TRUE?

• A. Big SQL doesn’t need any secondary indices to access HBase tables
• B. Big SQL processes queries locally either on disk or in memory
• C. Big SQL supports updates in Hive.
• D. Executing Big SQL queries through MapReduce framework would always be a better choice

Answer: C

Explanation:
References:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/bd-bigsql/

NEW QUESTION 22
Which of the following is true about Cloudant?

• A. It is a byte-value store
• B. It is available as a database-as-a-service (DBaaS)
• C. It runs remotely in the cloud and not on a local system
• D. It offers SQL access to data

Answer: B

Explanation:
References:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cloudant/

NEW QUESTION 23
The AQL query language is the easiest and most flexible tool to pull structured output from which of the following?

• A. Hive data structures
• B. Unstructured text
• C. Hbase schemas
• D. JDBC connected relational data marts

Answer: A

Explanation:
Reference:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/bd-sqltohadoop2/

NEW QUESTION 24
A media company wants to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaign. Before they release a movie they prepare and run a campaign for promotion. Based on the response on Twitter and Facebook they want to decidewhetheror not they should continue a particular campaign. Which of the following should be selected to meet these requirements?

• A. Hadoop
• B. Streams
• C. Unica
• D. Pure Data for Analytics

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 25
Which of the following statements regarding SPSS is TRUE?

• A. SPSS software provides a security framework
• B. SPSS analytics are primarily accessed through a scripting language
• C. SPSS models can only be applied to data at rest
• D. SPSS can directly use BigR syntax such as “bigr.list”

Answer: A

Explanation:
Reference:
http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/7-really-good-reasons-partner-spss-analytics-
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NEW QUESTION 26
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