Which of the following is the best description of why it is important to learn about the foundations for big data?

• Foundations stand the test of time.

• Foundations allow for the understanding of practical concepts in Hadoop.

• Foundations is all that is required to show a mastery of big data concepts.

• Foundations help you revisit calculus concepts required in the understanding of big data.

What is the benefit of a commodity cluster?

• Prevents individual component failures

• Enables fault tolerance

• Much faster than a traditional super computer

• Prevents network connection failure

What is a way to enable fault tolerance?

• Better LAN Connection

• Distributed Computing

• System Wide Restart

• Redundant Data Storage

What are the specific benefit(s) to a distributed file system?

• High Fault Tolerance

• Data Scalability

• Large Storage

• High Concurrency

Which of the following are general requirements for a programming language in order to support big data models?

• Enable Adding of More Racks

• Utilize Map Reduction Methods

• Optimization of Specific Data Types

• Support Big Data Operations

• Handle Fault Tolerance