Apache Spark Interview Questions

Apache Spark interview questions

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Total Questions: 5

1. Spark was initially started by ____________ at UC Berkeley AMPLab in 2009.

A. Mahek Zaharia

B. Matei Zaharia

C. Doug Cutting

D. Stonebraker

Correct Answer is : Matei Zaharia

2. Point out the correct statement :

A. RSS abstraction provides distributed task dispatching, scheduling, and basic I/O functionalities

B. For cluster manager, Spark supports standalone Hadoop YARN

C. Hive SQL is a component on top of Spark Core

D. None of the mentioned

Correct Answer is : For cluster manager, Spark supports standalone Hadoop YARN

3. ____________ is a component on top of Spark Core.

A. Spark Streaming

B. Spark SQL

C. RDDs

D. All of the mentioned

Correct Answer is : Spark SQL

4. Spark SQL provides a domain-specific language to manipulate ___________ in Scala, Java, or Python.

A. Spark Streaming

B. Spark SQL

C. RDDs

D. All of the mentioned

Correct Answer is : RDDs

5. Point out the wrong statement :

A. For distributed storage, Spark can interface with a wide variety, including Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

B. Spark also supports a pseudo-distributed mode, usually used only for development or testing purposes

C. Spark has over 465 contributors in 2014

D. All of the mentioned

Correct Answer is : All of the mentioned

Apache Spark interview questions