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    Heq May21 Dip BDM Report

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    This document provides an examiners' report on a Big Data Management exam from May 2021. It summarizes the exam questions and provides guidance on how candidates performed. Section A of the exam was not widely attempted. Section B, which covered key characteristics of Big Data such as volume, velocity, and variety, saw more popular questions. Question A1 addressed structured vs. unstructured data, consistency issues in Big Data, and describing Kafka. Most candidates did well except some had difficulty explaining Kafka beyond publish/subscribe. Question A2 part A was less well answered as candidates confused costs/benefits. Part B knew network properties but not their optimization for Big Data. Question A3 on R

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    This document provides an examiners' report on a Big Data Management exam from May 2021. It summarizes the exam questions and provides guidance on how candidates performed. Section A of the exam was not widely attempted. Section B, which covered key characteristics of Big Data such as volume, velocity, and variety, saw more popular questions. Question A1 addressed structured vs. unstructured data, consistency issues in Big Data, and describing Kafka. Most candidates did well except some had difficulty explaining Kafka beyond publish/subscribe. Question A2 part A was less well answered as candidates confused costs/benefits. Part B knew network properties but not their optimization for Big Data. Question A3 on R

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    This document provides an examiners' report on a Big Data Management exam from May 2021. It summarizes the exam questions and provides guidance on how candidates performed. Section A of the exam was not widely attempted. Section B, which covered key characteristics of Big Data such as volume, velocity, and variety, saw more popular questions. Question A1 addressed structured vs. unstructured data, consistency issues in Big Data, and describing Kafka. Most candidates did well except some had difficulty explaining Kafka beyond publish/subscribe. Question A2 part A was less well answered as candidates confused costs/benefits. Part B knew network properties but not their optimization for Big Data. Question A3 on R

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    This document provides an examiners' report on a Big Data Management exam from May 2021. It summarizes the exam questions and provides guidance on how candidates performed. Section A of the exam was not widely attempted. Section B, which covered key characteristics of Big Data such as volume, velocity, and variety, saw more popular questions. Question A1 addressed structured vs. unstructured data, consistency issues in Big Data, and describing Kafka. Most candidates did well except some had difficulty explaining Kafka beyond publish/subscribe. Question A2 part A was less well answered as candidates confused costs/benefits. Part B knew network properties but not their optimization for Big Data. Question A3 on R

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    BCS Higher Education Qualification

    Diploma

    MAY 2021

    EXAMINERS’ REPORT

    BIG DATA MANAGEMENT

    General comments

    Very few candidates attempted section A of the examination. Section (B) of the paper contained
    the most popular questions. It covered the defining characteristics of Big Data – Laney’s v’s and
    later extensions, volume, velocity, variety, valence, and value, typical measures of magnitude and
    the challenges of Big Data – storage, infrastructure, technologies, processing.

    Question number: A1
    Syllabus area:
    1 Big Data fundamentals
    1.3 Challenges of Big data – storage, infrastructure, technologies, processing
    3 Storage, data and programming interface models for Big Data
    3.3 Data modelling – structured data, unstructured data and streamed data
    3.4 Modelling real time data – pipelines with Kafka and similar technologies

    Total marks allocated: 25


    Examiners’ Guidance Notes

    Most candidates achieved reasonably high marks for this question. For part a the essential
    distinction between structured and unstructured data was answered. Part b was generally well
    answered although some candidates did not address consistency as a main issue. Part c was well
    answered with the key areas of Kafka comprehensively described by many. A few attempts
    showed difficulty in going beyond a simple publish and subscribe definition and tended to gain
    lower marks for this part of the question.

    Question number: A2
    Syllabus area:
    2 Management issues for Big Data
    2.1 Staffing, skillsets, strategies, total cost of ownership
    5 Big Data infrastructures
    5.1 Networks, cloud based – in house v outsourced

    Total marks allocated: 25


    Examiners’ Guidance Notes
    Part a of this question was generally less well answered. Many answers tended to confuse the
    costs and benefits between being an advantage or disadvantage and few answers mentioned any
    advantage to having flexibility in development methods. For part b most answers indicated a good
    appreciation of the three network properties but did not state how they can be optimised for Big
    Data processing in particular. This reduced the potential to gain higher marks for this part of the
    question.

    Question number: A3
    Syllabus area:
    7 Introduction to R
    7.2 R programming language – language and ecosystem basic syntax
    7.3 Basic statistics in R – mode, mean, variance, moments

    Total marks allocated: 25


    Examiners’ Guidance Notes

    No attempts were made for this question

    Question number: B4
    Total marks allocated: 25
    Examiners’ Guidance Notes
    This was a very well answered question with most candidates achieving high marks. A small
    number of candidates did not provide sufficient depth in their answers

    Question number: B5
    Total marks allocated: 25
    Examiners’ Guidance Notes
    Candidates were able to demonstrate good knowledge on these topics. Nearly all provided
    satisfactory or better answers

    Question number: B6
    Total marks allocated: 25
    Examiners’ Guidance Notes
    A reasonably well answered question. Again more depth in the answers would have helped

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