Practice Actions (eager Execution) (2.2.2) - Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka
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Actions (Eager Execution)

Practice - Actions (Eager Execution)

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does the collect() action do?

💡 Hint: Think about how you would gather all the items from a collection.

Question 2 Easy

True or False: Transformations execute immediately when called.

💡 Hint: Remember the difference between laziness and eagerness in Spark.

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Question 1

What does the action count() do?

Counts the number of elements in an RDD.
Retrieves all elements in an RDD.
Saves an RDD to text files.

💡 Hint: Think about what you want to know about the items in your collection.

Question 2

True or False: The collect() action is the safest way to retrieve data from a large RDD.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what can happen if you try to fit too much data into a small space.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

You have a large dataset of user transactions in an RDD and need to find the total number of transactions and save the result to a file. How would you accomplish this?

💡 Hint: Think about the sequence you need to follow and how you would combine actions.

Challenge 2 Hard

Describe a scenario where failing to understand the distinction between actions and transformations could lead to performance issues.

💡 Hint: Consider the implications of retrieving large amounts of data at once.

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