NEW QUESTION 1
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-
r

NEW QUESTION 2
A media company collects customer behavior data, such as how frequently they tune in, specific viewing habits, and peak usage in real time, in order to improve their services.The company likes to segmentits customers for advertisers by correlating viewing habits with public data, such as voter registration, in order to launch highly targeted campaigns to specific demographics. What technology should their Data Architect consider?

• A. InfoSphere Streams, BigInsights, and Pure Data for Analytics PDA
• B. BigInsights and Pure Data for Operational Analytics PDOA
• C. InfoSphere Streams, Spark, and BigR
• D. PureData for Analytics and SPSS

Answer: D

Explanation:
Reference:
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/puredata/analytics/nztechnology/analytics.html

NEW QUESTION 3
You need to create an online repository for a company. Data includes pdf, documents, html, images, etc. Total data volume is approximately 1PB. Online repository must be highly available. You are required to propose the least costly solution. Which technology would be preferred for this requirement?

• A. Spark
• B. RDBMS
• C. Hadoop
• D. IBM Infosphere Streams

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 4
Which of the following can NOT be performed by the Open Data Platform (ODP)?

• A. Provide development and governance of upstream projects
• B. Contribute to the Apache Software Foundation projects
• C. Produce a set of tools and methods that enable members to create and test differentiated offerings based on the ODP core
• D. Accelerate the delivery of Big Data solutions by providing a well-defined core consisting of all the components of the Apache Software Foundation projects

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 5
Which of the following is a consideration in sizing an active archive Hadoop infrastructure?

• A. replication factor within Hadoop
• B. Reporting requirements
• C. velocity or rate at which data is being generated
• D. veracity or trustworthiness of the data

Answer: B

Explanation:
Reference:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-augment-data-warehouse3/

NEW QUESTION 6
In order to enable connectivity between Netezza and BigInsights, what must be enabled on the Netezza Performance Server?

• A. Java-based Netezza user-defined functions
• B. ODBC drivers from Netezza
• C. JDBC drivers from Netezza
• D. JAQL Netezza connectors

Answer: A

Explanation:
Reference:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSPT3X_4.1.0/com.ibm.swg.im.infosphere. biginsight s.import.doc/doc/data_warehouse_udf_netezza.html

NEW QUESTION 7
Big data is often defined as the ability to derive new insights from data that has scaled up along three axes known as the three v’s. Which of the following is the fourth v? (Hint: It has something to do with the uncertainty.)

• A. volume
• B. variety
• C. velocity
• D. veracity

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8
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 9
Company K is designing their Big Data system. In their enterprise, they anticipate every 9 months there will be a big spike of new data on the order of multiple TB. Their company policy also dictates that data older than one year will be archived with a major clean up every 5 years. Cost is also a big issue. Which of the following provides the best design for these requirements?

• A. Estimate the peak volume over a 5 year period and set up a Hadoop system with commodity HW and storage to accommodate that volume
• B. Estimate the peak volume over a 3 year period and set up a Hadoop system with NAS to accommodate the expected volume
• C. Use Cloud elasticity capabilities to handle the peak and valley data volume
• D. Use SAN storage with compression to handle the peak and valley data volume

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 10
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding Cloud deployment models?

• A. Performance and scalability requirements are a critical factor for deciding between Platform as a Serviceand Infrastructure as a Service deployment models
• B. In a platform as a Service offering, the customer has root access to the servers
• C. Applications with extremely high transactions volumes are good candidates for Platform as a Service
• D. In an infrastructure as a service deployment, the cloud provider provides security patching, monitoring andfail over capabilities

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 11
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 12
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 13
You are asked to provide deep analytics from existing historical data to score new
high volume incoming live data with low latency in real time. Which of the following would you suggest?

• A. SPSS Modeler with InfoSphere Streams
• B. Info Sphere DataStage with InfoSphere Streams
• C. Hive with MapReduce
• D. Cassandra with YARN

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 14
An upstream Oil and Gas Producer needs to optimize the performance of its assets. It needs to calculate Key Performance Indicators for flow rate sensors deployed to monitor the output flow and temperature and pressure for multiple pipelines in an oil field with hundreds of wells. Which of the following would you recommend to meet these requirements?

• A. Datastage ETL jobs should be created
• B. Infosphere Streams should be used
• C. Cognos reports would suffice here
• D. Hadoop based datastorage engine should be used

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 15
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 16
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?

• A. Parquet
• B. Avro
• C. ORC
• D. Sequence File

Answer: B

Explanation:
References:
http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/how-succeed-using-avro-storage-format

NEW QUESTION 17
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding cloud applications?

• A. Migrating a legacy application to the cloud is a simple solution to drive down cost
• B. Architecting and deploying a scalable cloud application requires a private cloud implementation
• C. To be truly elastic, a cloud application must be tightly coupled to the physical cloud environment
• D. Leveraging a private v
• E. public cloud may result in sacrificing some of the core advantages of cloud computing

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 18
Which of the following is NOT an example of unstructured data?

• A. HBase table
• B. Tweet
• C. Netezza table
• D. Internet Protocol Detail Record

Answer: C

Explanation:
References: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSULQD_7.2.0/com.ibm.nz.gsg.d oc/c_gets trt_nzsql_help.html

NEW QUESTION 19
The YARN High Availability feature adds redundancy in the form of an Active/Standby. Which of the following will pair to remove this otherwise single point of failure?

• A. JobTracker
• B. Data Node
• C. Management Node
• D. Resource Manager

Answer: D

Explanation:
References:
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/ResourceManagerHA.html

NEW QUESTION 20
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 21
Which of the following statements is TRUE?

• A. A good use of the BigInsights is as a query-ready archival system for your data warehouse to quickly accessdata
• B. BigInsights and Hadoop based systems in general are best used in high concurrency transactional systems
• C. Hadoop map reduce based computing engine is ideal for use as a real-time or near real- time processingextension to your existing business intelligence reporting
• D. The system ML engine is the preferable option to add unstructured text sentiment analysis to the customerservice reporting system

Answer: A

Explanation:
References: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSPT3X_2.1.2/com.ibm.swg.im.infosphere.biginsights.product.doc/doc/bi_enterprise_architecture
.html

NEW QUESTION 22
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding cloud based solutions?

• A. In a Platform as a Service Cloud deployment, the customer chooses the operating system they want to use
• B. Automated recovery from hardware or network failures is not possible in a public cloud implementation, onlyin a private clouds
• C. There are benefits to use the cloud even for small-scale applications
• D. Using firewalls to create network boundaries is sufficient for ensuring cloud security

Answer: C

Explanation:
References:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-cloudappdevelop/

NEW QUESTION 23
SPSS and BigInsights integration is enabled by which of the following?

• A. SPSS Analytic Server
• B. InfoSphere DataStage
• C. SPSS Modeler
• D. SPSS Collaboration & Deployment Services

Answer: A

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

NEW QUESTION 24
A large global enterprise customer has a Big Data environment set up on Hadoop. After a year in operation they are now looking to extend access to multiple functions that will need different views into different aspects/portions of the data. As you consider these requirements, which of the following statements is TRUE and also applies to the scenario?

• A. Hadoop does not support multi tenancy but can easily scale to support this by replicating data to new clusters with commodity hardware.
• B. Hadoop can support multi tenancy but only if YARN is used, so if not already used, the customer will need to upgrade to a YARN supported version.
• C. Virtualization methods can be used to support multi-tenancy on Hadoop because one can easily replicate to additional cluster whenever there is a need.
• D. Hadoop can support multi tenancy by using a cluster file system for storage, allowing all nodes to access the data.

Answer: D

Explanation:
Reference:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY/411/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r1 1.adv.do c/bl1adv_hadoop.htm?lang=en

NEW QUESTION 25
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