Question

Point out the correct statement.

(a) The sqoop command-line program is a wrapper which runs the bin/hadoop script shipped with Hadoop

(b) If $HADOOP_HOME is set, Sqoop will use the default installation location for Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop

(c) The active Hadoop configuration is loaded from $HADOOP_HOME/conf/, unless the $HADOOP_CONF_DIR environment variable is unset

(d) None of the mentioned

This question was addressed to me during an online exam.

Asked question is from Sqoop with Hadoop topic in portion ZooKeeper, Sqoop and Cassandra of Hadoop

Answer 1

Correct option is (a) The sqoop command-line program is a wrapper which runs the bin/hadoop script shipped with Hadoop

To explain I would say: If you have multiple installations of Hadoop present on your machine, you can select the Hadoop installation by setting the $HADOOP_HOME environment variable.