Practice Lazy Evaluation (2.1.4) - Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka
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Lazy Evaluation

Practice - Lazy Evaluation

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is lazy evaluation in Spark?

💡 Hint: Think about when tasks are actually carried out.

Question 2 Easy

What do transformations do in Spark?

💡 Hint: These are like planning without doing.

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Question 1

What is lazy evaluation?

Immediate execution of code
Delayed execution
Only applies to RDDs

💡 Hint: Think about how tasks are managed.

Question 2

Are transformations executed immediately?

True
False

💡 Hint: Remember the definition of transformations.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Analyze a Spark job with numerous transformations and an action. Discuss how lazy evaluation would adjust execution and resource management throughout.

💡 Hint: Focus on the number of transformations versus final execution.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain how lazy evaluation could influence memory usage in a Spark job dealing with large datasets and frequent transformations.

💡 Hint: Consider how data is stored during the different stages of processing.

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