Solr – Enterprise Search Engine Interview Question-Answer

Q.1 Which of the following is the free and open source software library?

       A. Apache Lucene

       B. Elastic search

       C. Apache Solr

       D. None of the options

Ans : Apache Lucene


Q.2 All the nodes in the environment are joined together to form ______

       A. Collection

       B. Cluster

       C. Leader

       D. Shard

Ans : Cluster


Q.3 Field types are defined in which file of Solr schema?

       A. schema.xml

       B. solr.xml

       C. solrconfig.xml

       D. None of the options

Ans : schema.xml


Q.4 SolrCloud automates many tasks with the help of _____

       A. Zookeeper

       B. Apache Accumulo

       C. Sqoop

       D. Apache Flume

Ans : Zookeeper


Q.5 Inverted Index is used in _______.

       A. Apache Solr

       B. Apache Lucene

       C. Elastic search

       D. All the options

Ans : Apache Solr


Q.6 Which of the following are the features of Apache Solr?

       A. NoSQL database

       B. Highly scalable

       C. Full text search

       D. All the options

Ans : All the options


Q.7 Which of the following tells Solr what to do with the incoming data when building an index?

       A. Indexing

       B. Querying

       C. Field Analysis

       D. Updating

Ans : Field Analysis


Q.8 Which of the following faceting is known as decision trees?

       A. Field Search

       B. Range Facets

       C. Phrase search

       D. Pivot Facets

Ans : Pivot Facets


Q.9 Which of the following command is used to create Solr core?

       A. create

       B. create_core

       C. Both the options

       D. None of the options

Ans : Both the options


Q.10 Which of the following interfaces is used for Solr indexing…. ?

       A. Web Interface

       B. Command Line

       C. Java Client API

       D. All the options

Ans : Java Client API


Q.11 Which of the following command is used to start Solr in the foreground?

       A. sudo service Solr start -f

       B. sudo service Solr start

       C. sudo service Solr restart

       D. sudo service Solr restart

Ans : sudo service Solr start -f


Q.12 The special character for single character wildcard search type is ______.

       A. ?

       B. *

       C. #

       D. @

Ans : ?


Q.13 The number of documents to be retrieved are specified by start parameter?

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : False


Q.14 Results in the required format is specified by which parameter?

       A. fq

       B. fl

       C. wt

       D. None of the options

Ans : fq


Q.15 Which of the following search identifies those terms that are similar to the queried term?

       A. Wildcard Search

       B. Fuzzy search

       C. Range Search

       D. Proximity search

Ans : Fuzzy search


Q.16 The requests sent to apache Solr are processed by __________.

       A. Request Handlers

       B. response writer

       C. Query Parser

       D. update request Processor

Ans : Request Handlers


Q.17 Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching(BMPM) is available for which of the following languages?

       A. German

       B. Italian

       C. Polish

       D. All the options

Ans : All the options


Q.18 Which of the following filter discards all those tokens except those that are listed in the given word list?

       A. Kstem Filter

       B. Stop Word Filter

       C. Keep Word Filter

       D. None of the options

Ans : Keep Word Filter


Q.19 Which tokenizer splits the text field into tokens, treating whitespace and punctuation as delimeters?

       A. Lower Case Tokenizer

       B. Standard Tokenizer

       C. Classic Tokenizer

       D. ICU Tokenizer

Ans : Standard Tokenizer


Q.20 Which of the following breaks the field data into tokens?

       A. Filters

       B. Analyzers

       C. Tokenizers

       D. All the options

Ans : Tokenizers


Q.21 Which tool can be used to put content into a Solr instance server?

       A. bin/simplePost

       B. PostTool

       C. bin/post

       D. SimplePostTool

Ans : bin/post


Q.22 Which of the following is the basic field?

       A. long

       B. double

       C. date

       D. All the options

Ans : All the options


Q.23 Which tab on the Apache Solr Administration portal would you see to configure the logging levels?

       A. Java Properties

       B. Args

       C. Logging

       D. Dashboard

       E. Core Admin

Ans : Logging


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