Practice Lazy Evaluation - 2.1.4 | Week 8: Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka | Distributed and Cloud Systems Micro Specialization
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2.1.4 - Lazy Evaluation

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What is lazy evaluation in Spark?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about when tasks are actually carried out.

Question 2

Easy

What do transformations do in Spark?

πŸ’‘ Hint: These are like planning without doing.

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 is lazy evaluation?

  • Immediate execution of code
  • Delayed execution
  • Only applies to RDDs

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how tasks are managed.

Question 2

Are transformations executed immediately?

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Remember the definition of transformations.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

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

πŸ’‘ Hint: Focus on the number of transformations versus final execution.

Question 2

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

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how data is stored during the different stages of processing.

Challenge and get performance evaluation