Practice Rdd Operations: Transformations And Actions (2.2) - Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka
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RDD Operations: Transformations and Actions

Practice - RDD Operations: Transformations and Actions

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is an RDD?

💡 Hint: Think about how data is arranged and accessed.

Question 2 Easy

Give an example of a narrow transformation.

💡 Hint: Consider operations that affect individual partitions.

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Question 1

What is an RDD?

A type of database
A distributed collection of data
A programming language

💡 Hint: Think about Spark's data structures.

Question 2

True or False: Actions in Spark trigger computation and return results to the driver program.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what happens when an action is called.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Construct an RDD that calculates the average word length in a text file and explain your approach.

💡 Hint: Consider how to combine length counts and total words.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss the limitations of using collect() on large datasets in production.

💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between the RDD size and driver memory capacity.

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