What is the effective meaning of “NoSQL”?

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 OLAPanalytics will be performed. Performance for both OLTP and OLAP queries is important. Which of the following
designs would you suggest to the company?

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

Which of the following statements regarding Big R is TRUE?

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?

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?