Practice Spark RDD-based Implementation - 2.4.3 | Week 8: Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka | Distributed and Cloud Systems Micro Specialization
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2.4.3 - Spark RDD-based Implementation

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What does RDD stand for?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the key attributes of distributed computing.

Question 2

Easy

Are transformations in RDDs executed immediately?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how RDD handles the pipeline of operations.

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 RDD stand for?

  • Resilient Data Distribution
  • Resilient Distributed Dataset
  • Reduced Data Dataset

πŸ’‘ Hint: Focus on the core characteristics of Spark's data model.

Question 2

True or False: RDDs allow for modification of their elements after creation.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how data consistency is maintained in distributed frameworks.

Solve 2 more questions and get performance evaluation

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Design a simple workflow using RDDs to compute the average temperature from a large dataset of daily temperature readings.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how to partition and aggregate to compute averages.

Question 2

What are the performance implications of using wide transformations versus narrow transformations in Spark?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how data movement impacts overall execution time.

Challenge and get performance evaluation