Data Analytics (IT – 3006)

Practice Questions (Unit 1)

Q1. Why traditional databases cannot store big data?

Q2. A finance company wants to evaluate their users, on the basis of loans they have taken. They have
hired you to find the number of cases per location and categorize the count with respect to the reason for
taking a loan. Next, they have also tasked you to display their average risk score. Discuss and then model
your views concerning descriptive and predictive analytics.
Q3. A retail company wants to enhance their customer experience by analysing the customer reviews for
different products, so that they can inform the corresponding vendors and manufacturers about the
product defects and shortcomings. You have been tasked to analyse the complaints filed under each
product & the total number of complaints filed based on the geography, type of product, etc. You also
have to figure out the complaints which have no timely response. Discuss and then model your views
concerning descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics.
Q4. A mobile health organisation captures patient's physical activities by attaching various sensors on
different body parts. These sensors measure the motion of diverse body parts like the acc., the rate of turn,
the magnetic field orientation etc. A model will be built for effectively deriving information about the
motion of different body parts like chest, ankle etc. Discuss and then model your views concerning
diagnostic and predictive analytics.
Q5. Discuss some effective ways to measure the fault tolerance technique to increase the reliability of a
private, public and hybrid cloud.
Q6. A new company in Media and Entertainment domain wants to outsource movie ratings & reviews.
They want to know the frequent users who is giving review and rating consistently for most of the
movies. You have been hired to report and analyze different users, based on which user has rated the most
number of movies, their occupations & their age-group by revealing the right questions and seeking
answers.
Q7. Design a stock performance system to predict good and bad stocks based on their history exhibiting
parallel and distributed computing. Discuss 5 V’s in connection to the given problem.
Q8. A social media marketing company wants to expand its business. They want to find the websites
which have a low rank web page. You have been tasked to find the low-rated links based on the user
comments, likes etc by drawing conceptual data model, logical data model, physical data model and view
schema. Also, identify the structured, unstructured and semi-structured data.
Q9. Explain the similarity and difference between JSON and BSON with suitable examples.
Q10. Discuss the challenges associated with semi-structured data and how to deal with it?
Q11. Explain data locality with suitable examples. Explain the difference between “moving computation”
and “moving data” in a cluster.
Q12. How distributed and parallel computing play a role in big data environment?
Q13. Outline the main tasks and activities to be performed for each stage in data analytics life cycle for
the followings:
 A small stock trading organization, wants to build a Stock Performance System. You have been
tasked to create a data model to predict good and bad stocks based on their history. You also have
to build a customized product to handle complex queries such as calculating the covariance
between the stocks for each month.
 A mobile health organization captures patient’s physical activities, by attaching various sensors
on different body parts. These sensors measure the motion of diverse body parts like acceleration,
the rate of turn, magnetic field orientation, etc. You have to build data model for effectively
deriving information about the motion of different body parts like chest, ankle, etc.
 A retail company wants to enhance their customer experience by analysing the customer reviews
for different products. So that, they can inform the corresponding vendors and manufacturers
about the product defects and shortcomings. You have been tasked to analyse the complaints filed
under each product & the total number of complaints filed based on the geography, type of
product, etc. You also have to figure out the complaints which have no timely response.
 A new company in the travel domain wants to start their business efficiently, i.e. high profit for
low TCO. They want to analyse & find the most frequent & popular tourism destinations for their
business. You have been tasked to analyse top tourism destinations that people frequently travel
& top locations from where most of the tourism trips start. They also want you to analyze & find
the destinations with costly tourism packages.
 A new airline company wants to start their business efficiently. They are trying to figure out the
possible market and their competitors. You have been tasked to analyse & find the most active
airports with maximum number of flyers. You also have to analyse the most popular sources &
destinations, with the airline companies operating between them.
 A finance company wants to evaluate their users, on the basis of loans they have taken. They
have hired you to find the number of cases per location and categorize the count with respect to
the reason for taking a loan. Next, they have also tasked you to display their average risk score.
 A new company in Media and Entertainment domain wants to outsource movie ratings &
reviews. They want to know the frequent users who is giving review and rating consistently for
most of the movies. You have to analyze different users, based on which user has rated the most
number of movies, their occupations & their age-group.
 Analyze the Aadhaar card data set against different research queries for example total number of
Aadhaar cards approved by state, rejected by state, total number of Aadhaar card applicants by
gender and total number of Aadhaar card applicants by age type with visual depiction.
 A salesperson may manage many other salespeople. A salesperson is managed by only one
salespeople. A salesperson can be an agent for many customers. A customer is managed by one
salespeople. A customer can place many orders. An order can be placed by one customer. An
order lists many inventory items. An inventory item may be listed on many orders. An inventory
item is assembled from many parts. A part may be assembled into many inventory items. Many
employees assemble an inventory item from many parts. A supplier supplies many parts. A part
may be supplied by many suppliers.
 A manufacturing company produces products. The following product information is stored:
product name, product ID and quantity on hand. These products are made up of many
components. Each component can be supplied by one or more suppliers. The following
component information is kept: component ID, name, description, suppliers who supply them,
and products in which they are used.
 Assumptions:
o A supplier can exist without providing components.
o A component does not have to be associated with a supplier.
o A component does not have to be associated with a product. Not all components are used in
products.
o A product cannot exist without components.
Q14. Consider the dataset presented below. Draw the MapReduce process to find the maximum electrical
consumption for each month.

Figure 1: Dataset representing electrical consumption for each year

Q15. Describe the working of MapReduce model. Perform the Map Reduce task for the following input
files containing the following data.
Input File 1 Input File 2 Input File 3

Apple Orange Mango Apple Plum Mango Apple Orange Mango

Orange Grapes Plum Apple Apple Plum Plum Apple Grapes

Q16. Consider the following sample data. Draw the MapReduce process to find the number of customers
from each city.

Q17. Consider the following sample data. Draw the MapReduce process to find the number of employees
from each category of marital status.
Q18. Discuss Hadoop ecosystem by outlining each component.
Q19. Draw a diagram illustrating multi-threaded parallel distributed system.
Q20. Discuss similarities and differences between ELT and ETL.
Q21. Complete the following diagram with the incorporation of value.

Q22. You are planning the marketing strategy for a new product in your business. Identify and list some
limitations of structured data related to this work.
Q23. In what ways does analyzing Big Data help organizations prevent fraud?
Q24. Design considerations for distributed systems are: No global clock, Geographical distribution, No
shared memory, Independence and heterogeneity, Fail-over mechanism, and Security concerns. Explain
each of the terms.
Q25. The reasons to why a system should be built distributed, not just parallel with the characteristics of
Scalability, Reliability, Data sharing, Resources sharing, Heterogeneity and modularity, Geographic
construction, and Economic. Explain each of the terms in details.
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