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Previous Year Question Paper

CSIT-801 - Data Science

May 2024•CSIT•SEMESTER-8
May 2024
Max Marks: 70
Duration: 3 Hours
Instructions:

• Answer any five questions.

• All questions carry equal marks.

• In case of any doubt or dispute the English version question should be treated as final.

Q.1
a)Unit 1

What are the three characteristics of Big Data and what are the main considerations in processing Big Data?

b)Unit 1

Illustrate the various phases involved in Big Data Analytics with neat diagram. alt=''

Q.2
a)Unit 2

Which itemsets satisfy the minimum support of 0.5?

b)Unit 2

How are interesting rules identified? How are interesting rules distinguished from coincidental rules?

Q.3
a)Unit 4

In MapReduce how job scheduling is done in case of the fair scheduler?

b)Unit 2

Use K-means clustering algorithm to divide the following data into two clusters.

x1x_112345
x2x_211325
Q.4
a)Unit 4

Explain storage mechanism in HBASE.

b)Unit 4

Draw and explain HDFS Architecture. Explain the functions of NameNode and DataNodes. What is a secondary NameNode. Is it a suitable to the NameNode? alt=''

Q.5
a)Unit 5

What R function is used to encode a vector as a category?

b)Unit 5

What is a rug plot used for in a density plot?

Q.6
a)Unit 1

Compare and contrast the terms structured, unstructured and semi-structured data.

b)Unit 1

What is an analytic sandbox, and why is it important?

Q.7
a)Unit 4

Explain how MapReduce in Hadoop used to perform a word count on the specified dataset?

b)Unit 4

Explain following commands with syntax and one example of each:

i) copyFromLocal in Hadoop

ii) showing the content of output file in Hadoop

Q.8
a)Unit 2

Explain: Advantages of Apriori algorithm.

b)Unit 2

Explain: Linear regression.

c)Unit 2

Explain: Decision tree.

d)Unit 2

Explain: Different Naive Bayes classifier.