Questions

Try your hand at these practice questions to test your knowledge of Apache Spark:

Question 1:

Which statement does not accurately describe a feature of the Spark driver?

1. The Spark driver serves as the node where the main method of a Spark application runs to co-ordinate the application
2. The Spark driver can be horizontally scaled to enhance overall processing throughput
3. The Spark driver houses the SparkContext object
4. The Spark driver is tasked with scheduling the execution of data by using different worker nodes in cluster mode
5. Optimal performance dictates that the Spark driver should be positioned as close as possible to worker nodes

Question 2:

Which of these statements accurately describes stages?

1. Tasks within a stage can be simultaneously executed by multiple machines
2. Various stages within a job can run concurrently
3. Stages comprise one or more jobs
4. Stages temporarily store transactions before committing them through...