Week 7 Spark Quiz

What is Apache Spark primarily used for?

• Real-time analytics

• Batch processing

• Both A and B

• None of the above

In Spark, what is an RDD?

• Rapid Data Deployment

• Resilient Distributed Dataset

• Reliable Data Delivery

• Reduced Data Diagram

What is a Spark DataFrame?

• A distributed collection of data organized into named columns

• A type of RDD

• A local collection of data

• A configuration setting in Spark

In Hadoop MapReduce, the process of shuffling and sorting happens between which two operations?

• After Reduce

• Between Map and Reduce

• Before Map

• 1. None of the above

What is the fundamental data structure used in Spark for handling distributed data?

• DataFrames

• Datasets

• Partitions

• RDDs

Which of the following is a wide transformation in Apache Spark that groups data based on a specified key?

• map()

• reduceByKey()

• groupBy()

• filter()

What is/ are the components of Spark core?

• Spark SQL

• Spark Streaming

• Spark Big data

• Spark MLlib