Briefing Cloudera Knowledge

Which MapReduce daemon runs on each slave node and participates in job execution?

Which MapReduce daemon runs on each slave node and participates in job execution?

A.
TaskTracker

B.
JobTracker

C.
NameNode

D.
Secondary NameNode

Explanation:
Single instance of a Task Tracker is run on each Slave node. Task tracker is run as
a separate JVM process.
Reference:24 Interview Questions & Answers for Hadoop MapReduce developers,What is
configuration of a typical slave node on Hadoop cluster? How many JVMs run on a slave node?
http://www.fromdev.com/2010/12/interview-questions-hadoop-mapreduce.html(See answer to
question no. 5)