Practice RDD Operations: Transformations and Actions - 2.2 | Week 8: Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka | Distributed and Cloud Systems Micro Specialization
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2.2 - RDD Operations: Transformations and Actions

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What is an RDD?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how data is arranged and accessed.

Question 2

Easy

Give an example of a narrow transformation.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider operations that affect individual partitions.

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 an RDD?

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

πŸ’‘ 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

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what happens when an action is called.

Solve and get performance evaluation

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

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

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how to combine length counts and total words.

Question 2

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

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the relationship between the RDD size and driver memory capacity.

Challenge and get performance evaluation