EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following is NOT a valid Service Level Agreement (SLA) metric?

Question2: 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)?

Question3: What is the effective meaning of "NoSQL"?

Question4: Which of the following is NOT an example of unstructured data?

Question5: You are consulting with a company to design a new Big Data System. The CIO insists that all components must be open source. The key requirement is to provide text search on their data. For audit purposes the infrastructure must also be monitored and an alert system in place. To meet these requirements, which of the following would you suggest?

Question6: Which one of the following statements about Big SQL is NOT TRUE?

Question7: Which data format stores all of the data in a binary format making the files more compact, and will even add in markers to help Map Reduce jobs determine where to break large files for more efficient processing?

Question8: You are building a pricing application combining the output from your internal customer database along with an online feed that contains up to the minute competitor pricing adjustments. Which of the following is the best choice for data level real time output?

Question9: A major telecommunication company has millions of customers. Most of their customers are prepaid. Being prepaid customers, they can very easily switch to other vendors. The last four to six months, this company has lost quite a good number of customers to competition. They intend to build a system that can provide them with insight into the customer's social network (e.g. who is the influencer and who is the follower).
They also want the ability to monitor the voice and data usage patterns in real time and they want the system to be trained over time to predict possible dissatisfactions. Given this scenario, which one of the following would you recommend?

Question10: A large Retailer (online and "brick & mortar") processes data for analyzing marketing campaigns for their loyalty club members. The current process takes weeks for processing only 10% of social data. What is the most cost-effective platform for processing and analyzing campaign results from social data on a daily basis using 100% dataset?

Question11: Which of the following statements regarding Big R is TRUE?

Question12: SPSS and BigInsights integration is enabled by which of the following?

Question13: Which of the following is a requirement for data retention and archival?

Question14: A financial company stores all enterprise data for five years in their Teradata data warehouse that costs them expensive storage. The company started an initiative to move historical data to a Hadoop environment and uses federation method to access both sets of data. What would be the IBM Big Data value proposition for this use case?

Question15: You need to provision a Hadoop cluster to perform data analysis on customer sales data to predict which products are more popular. Which of the following solutions will let you set up your cluster with the most stability in the platform?

Question16: The downside of cloud computing, relative to SLAs, is the difficulty in determining which of the following?

Question17: 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?

Question18: You are designing storage for a new Hadoop cluster. Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the usage of SAN or NAS?

Question19: The analysis layer reads the data digested by the layer massaging and store layer. In some cases, the analysis layer accesses the data directly from the data source. Designing the analysis layer requires careful forethought and planning. Decisions must be made with regard to how to manage the tasks to do which of the following?

Question20: Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding Cloud deployment models?

Question21: Which of the following approaches can an organization take to solve the impact on the performance and capacity originated by the variety of data types?

Question22: 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?

Question23: You are going to develop Spark applications for your client. Which of the following cluster managers, that is also part of the Open Data Platform (ODP), would you use to focus on building the business driven application?

Question24: A company has to design a new data system. They will need to support several OLTP applications. Every three days a batch job will run to load specific data into a set of 10 large tables (with historical data) where OLAP analytics will be performed. Performance for both OLTP and OLAP queries is important. Which of the following designs would you suggest to the company?

Question25: Which of the following signifies evidence of congestion in the network?

Question26: Company A has decided to implement a new data system to support their rapidly growing business. They have an existing 20 TB worth of raw data, with an expected weekly incoming rate of 50 GB of new raw data. The data is mostly text based and unstructured. A typical query can involve pulling in 10 GB of data.
Historically, performance has been an issue and currently needs to be addressed. Which of the following would you suggest to support these requirements?

Question27: Which of the following is true about Cloudant?

Question28: A component of IBM Industry Model forms the basis of the "Logical Data Warehouse Model" that spans across the traditional RDBMS and Hadoop technology. It defines all of the data structures that would be expected to be defined in the Detailed System of Record. What is the name of this component?

Question29: Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding cloud based solutions?