Apache Spark Quiz Questions - Part 2

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Best Apache Spark Quiz Questions And Answers

Q.1 "What will be the output:
val rawData = spark.read.textFile("PATH").rdd
val result = rawData.filter…"

Process the data as per the specified logic

Compilation error

Won't be executed

None

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark Tutorial

Q.2 RDD is

Immutable

Recomputable

Fault-tolerant

All of the above

For detailed description follow: Spark RDD Tutorial

Q.3 RDD operations

Transformation

Action

Caching

All of the above

For detailed description follow: Spark RDD Transformations Tutorial

Q.3 We can edit the data of RDD like conversion to uppercase

TRUE

FALSE

For detailed description follow: Spark RDD Tutorial

Q.4 Identify correct transformation

Map

Filter

Join

All of the above

For detailed description follow: Spark RDD Transformations Tutorial

Q.5 Identify Correct Action

Reduce

Map

Filter

None

For detailed description follow: Spark RDD Transformations and Actions Tutorial

Q.6 Choose correct statement

All the transformations and actions are lazily evaluated

Execution starts with the call of Action

Execution starts with the call of Transformation

None

For detailed description follow: Spark RDD Transformations and Actions Tutorial

Q.7 Choose correct statement about Spark Context

Interact with cluster manager

Specify spark how to access cluster

None

Both

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark Tutorial

Q.8 Spark cache the data automatically in the memory as and when needed

TRUE

FALSE

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark Tutorial

Q.9 For resource management spark can use

Yarn

Mesos

Standalone cluster manager

All of the above

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark Tutorial

Q.10 Rdd can not be created from data stored on

LocalFS

oracle

HDFS

For detailed description follow: Spark RDD Tutorial

Q.11 What does Spark Engine do?

Scheduling

Distributing data across cluster

Monitoring data across cluster

All of the above

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark Tutorial

Q.12 What is transformation in Spark RDD?

takes RDD as input and produces one or more RDD as output.

Returns final result of RDD computations.

The ways to send result from executors to the driver

None of the above

Aapche Spark Interview Questions and Answers

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark RDD Operations

Q.13 What is action in Spark RDD?

The ways to send result from executors to the driver

takes RDD as input and produces one or more RDD as output.

Creates one or many new RDDs

None of the above

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark RDD Operations

Q.14 Which of the following is the reason of Spark being Speedy than MapReduce?

Support for different language APIs like Scala, Java, Python and R

DAG execution engine and in-memory computation

RDDs are immutable and fault-tolerant

None of the above

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark and Hadoop MapReduce Comparison

Q.15 Can you combine the libraries of Apache Spark into the same Application for example MLlib, GraphX, SQL and DataFrames etc.

Yes

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark Ecosystem Components

Q.16 Can we edit the data of RDD for example the case conversion?

Yes

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark RDD

Q.17 Which of the following is not a transformation?

map()

flatMap()

reduce()

filter()

For detailed description follow: Spark RDD Transformations and Actions APIs

Q.18 Which of the following is true for Spark SQL?

It is the kernel of Spark

Provides an execution platform for all the Spark applications

It enables users to run SQL / HQL queries on the top of Spark.

Enables powerful interactive and data analytics application across live streaming data

For detailed description follow: Spark SQL Tutorial

Q.19 Which of the following is the entry point of Spark SQL?

SparkContext

SparkSession

Both a and b

None of the above

For detailed description follow: Spark SQL Tutorial

Q.20 SparkContext guides how to access the Spark cluster?

TRUE

FALSE

For detailed description follow: Apache Spark Job Execution Flow

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2 thoughts on “Apache Spark Quiz Questions – Part 2”

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Sunil R September 30, 2017 at 2:18 pm

Let me know the answer for question 12. Because its not deplying correct answer after selecting option.
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Pranab Datta May 28, 2018 at 8:09 am

Excellent collection of multiple choice question, feeling great.

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