Practice Actions (Eager Execution) - 2.2.2 | Week 8: Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka | Distributed and Cloud Systems Micro Specialization
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2.2.2 - Actions (Eager Execution)

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What does the collect() action do?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how you would gather all the items from a collection.

Question 2

Easy

True or False: Transformations execute immediately when called.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Remember the difference between laziness and eagerness in Spark.

Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation

Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

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.

πŸ’‘ 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

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

Solve 1 more question and get performance evaluation

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

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?

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

Question 2

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

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the implications of retrieving large amounts of data at once.

Challenge and get performance evaluation