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# 2018 Data Pro Assessment

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[by Peter Devereaux](https://www.websitemagazine.com/marketing/author/peter-devereaux) 01 Jan, 2018

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Correctly answering hundreds of questions would only begin to adequately measure one's true competency as a "data" professional, but it's fun to try with a sample set. Test your knowledge and awareness of popular big data tools, technology and terms in this month's edition of Website Magazine's Quiz Time!   
  
 ***1. Apache Hive is an open-source data warehouse infrastructure that...***   
 a) provides tools for data summarization, query and analysis.   
 b) enables access to data via SQL.   
 c) is designed to support the analysis of large datasets.   
 d) All of the above.   
  
 ***2. Cluster analysis ("clustering") is a statistical classification technique or activity that involves grouping a set of objects or data so that those in the same group (called a cluster) are similar to each other, but different from those in other clusters.***   
 a) True   
 b) False

***3. Data mining is the process of analyzing hidden \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ according to different perspectives for categorization into useful information.***   
 a) anomalies in data   
 b) patterns in data   
 c) stolen data   
 d) None of the above.   
  
 ***4. Hadoop, a distributed data management platform and open-source software frame-work for storing and processing big data, was designed to scale linearly to large clusters of thousands of commodity computers.***   
 a) True   
 b) False

***5. Metadata is data that...***   
a) is shared under a Creative Commons license.   
 b) describes other data.   
 c) should never be used for images and videos.   
 d) All of the above.

***6. R is a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ programming language for \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ analysis.***   
 a) non-visual, narrative   
 b) enterprise-level, human resources   
 c) open-source, statistical   
 d) None of the above.   
  
 ***7. One petabyte is..***   
 a) an extremely large unit of data.   
 b) equal to 1,000 terabytes.   
 c) both A and B.   
 d) None of the above.

***8. Pattern recognition occurs when an algorithm locates recurrences or regularities within large data sets.***   
 a) True   
 b) False

***9. Natural language processing (NLP) involves tasks such as...***   
 a) identifying sentence structures   
 b) detecting keywords   
 c) extracting relationship data   
 d) All of the above.

***10. This process and technology is used to remove inaccurate data:***   
 a) data cleansing   
 b) metadata analysis   
 c) progressive enhancement   
 d) None of the above. 

**ANSWERS ARE BELOW...**

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 Answers: 1. D; 2. A; 3. B; 4. A; 5. B; 6. C; 7. C; 8. A; 9. D; 10. A

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