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Apache Spark interview questions
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All Apache Spark questions
| # | Question | Difficulty | Type | Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is the difference between a transformation and an action in Spark? | Easy | conceptual | |
| 2 | Explain Spark jobs, stages and tasks. | Medium | conceptual | |
| 3 | How does partition count affect Spark performance? | Medium | optimization, conceptual | |
| 4 | What causes a shuffle in Spark? | Medium | conceptual | |
| 5 | What is data skew and how can you mitigate it? | Hard | optimization, debugging |
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Concept review
- LessonAdvancedAdaptive Query Execution and Dynamic Partition Pruning
- LessonBeginnerApache Spark Architecture: Driver, Executors and Cluster Managers
- LessonIntermediateSpark Caching, Checkpointing, Broadcast Variables and Accumulators
- LessonAdvancedCatalyst, Tungsten and Code Generation: How Spark SQL Optimises Queries
- LessonAdvancedDeploying and Monitoring Spark: Kubernetes and the History Server
- LessonIntermediateSpark Execution Model: Lazy Evaluation, Jobs, Stages and Tasks
- LessonAdvancedSpark Memory, Executor Sizing and Cluster Tuning
- LessonIntermediateSpark Partitions, Shuffles and Data Skew
- LessonBeginnerSpark RDD Fundamentals: Transformations, Actions and Key-Value Operations
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