Go through the Yahoo Hadoop tutorial before going through Hadoop the definitive guide. The Yahoo tutorial gives you a very clean and easy understanding of the architecture.
I think the concepts are not arranged properly in the Book. That makes it a little difficult to study it.
So do not study it together. Go through the web tutorial first.
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