Top 20 Apache Spark Interview Questions and Answers | Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers

Apache Spark Interview Questions and Answers 2018 | Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers
Spark is third generation distributed data processing platform. It’s unified big data solution for all big data processing problems such as batch, interacting, streaming processing.So it can ease many big data problems.

Hello and welcome to Hadoop interview questions and answers tutorial powered by Acadgild. Here in this video, Sudhanshu Kumar, Data Scientist and one of the experienced mentor in the industry takes you through the top 20 interview questions in Apache Spark with answers which will help the aspiring data scientists or the data engineers to pass their interviews.

Top 20 Apache Interview Questions:
1. Why Spark?
2. What is Spark?
3. What is RDD?
4. What is SparkContext?
5. What are Partitions?
6. How does spark partition the data?
7. How does Spark store the data?
8. Is it mandatory to start Hadoop to run Spark application?
9. What are the components of the Spark Ecosystems?
10. What is Spark Core functionalities?
11. How Spark SQL is different from HQL and SQL?
12. When do we use Spark Streaming?
13. How does Spark Stream API works?
14. What is Spark MLlib?
15. What is GraphX?
16. What is File System API?
17. Why Partitions are immutable?
18. What is Transformation in Spark?
19. What is Action in Spark?
20. What is RDD Lineage?

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[darenadelphonse]

1. Why Spark? 1:12
2. What is Spark? 6:48
3. What is RDD? 9:42
4. What is SparkContext? 14:08
5. What are Partitions? 16:15
6. How does spark partition the data? 17:29
7. How does Spark store the data? 18:14
8. Is it mandatory to start Hadoop to run Spark application? 19:10
9. What are the components of the Spark Ecosystems? 19:45
10. What is Spark Core functionalities? 22:09
11. How Spark SQL is different from HQL and SQL? 24:11
12. When do we use Spark Streaming? 25:03
13. How does Spark Stream API works? 25:48
14. What is Spark MLlib? 27:47
15. What is GraphX? 29:41
16. What is File System API? 31:16
17. Why Partitions are immutable? 32:42
18. What is Transformation in Spark? 33:38
19. What is Action in Spark? 35:28
20. What is RDD Lineage? 37:10

[ShivamSingh-elep]

Thanks for the simple explanation with much clarity!!

[shakeelmajeed]

Good overview and explanation. It would have been better if the slides could be made visible longer along with the explanation .its always good to have the slide context on to absorb the talking points .Thanks for uploading

[ds_]

Beautifully explained, Thank you very much.

[Arghamaz]

Very smooth explanation ..very helpful :)

[hugopasqualdelpobil]

Can you explain how to setup the fake background? Thanks!

[dumbledoor]

Great walkthrough of SPARK, thank you 🙏

[gauravjaincse]

Great explanation of Spark. Learn the spark architecture :)

[shivanandyadav]

very nice explained all the spark concept

[victorhuang]

34:41 examples of spark transformations; 36:25 examples of spark common actions.

[chandinisaleem]

You should have taken a break in between. Half of the answers you are bluffing or just trying to complete the sentence. But content is good.

[ramp]

You could have avoided switching the slide with the presenter. Its distracting.
You could use PIP

[divyachaturvedi]

Wasted time it's just ab intro of spark nothing to do with interview .

[bali]

a memory, a data, a spark, a resources, a CPU .. what kind of English is this I couldn't focus on what you're explaining at all ..

[rdhundare]

Kai prawachan dilya sarkha read kartoy

[samparkpradhan]

what is
"64 MB of "A" data". what did you fail in communications?

[Asif_shaik]

its good video by the way, his English skills is very poor, he is using same words all the time on the top of that, on the top of that. i liked this video finally for my project its useful information,

[kapilricky]

i dont know, but he made it so boring :(

[samparkpradhan]

Sir, for making video only knowledge aint enough, please improve your English. And do not look for reference with corner of your eye.