The answer to will help the interviewer know more about the big data tools that you are well-versed with and are interested in working with. If you show affinity towards a particular tool then the probability that you will be deployed to work on that particular tool, is more.If you say that you have a good knowledge of all the popular big data tools like pig, hive, HBase, Sqoop, flume then it shows that you have knowledge about the hadoop ecosystem as a whole.