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Question 26

Given this code:

.withWatermark("event_time","10 minutes")
.groupBy(window("event_time","15 minutes"))
.count()
What happens to data that arrives after the watermark threshold?
Options:

Correct Answer: B
According to Spark's watermarking rules:
"Records that are older than the watermark (event time < current watermark) are considered too late and are dropped." So, if a record'sevent_timeis earlier than (max event_time seen so far - 10 minutes), it is discarded.
Reference:Structured Streaming - Handling Late Data
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Question 27

A developer initializes a SparkSession:

spark = SparkSession.builder \
.appName("Analytics Application") \
.getOrCreate()
Which statement describes thesparkSparkSession?

Correct Answer: C
Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation From Exact Extract:
According to the PySpark API documentation:
"getOrCreate(): Gets an existing SparkSession or, if there is no existing one, creates a new one based on the options set in this builder." This means Spark maintains a global singleton session within a JVM process. Repeated calls togetOrCreate() return the same session, unless explicitly stopped.
Option A is incorrect: the method does not destroy any session.
Option B incorrectly ties uniqueness toappName, which does not influence session reusability.
Option D is incorrect: it contradicts the fundamental behavior ofgetOrCreate().
(Source:PySpark SparkSession API Docs)
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Question 28

Given the code fragment:

import pyspark.pandas as ps
psdf = ps.DataFrame({'col1': [1, 2], 'col2': [3, 4]})
Which method is used to convert a Pandas API on Spark DataFrame (pyspark.pandas.DataFrame) into a standard PySpark DataFrame (pyspark.sql.DataFrame)?

Correct Answer: A
Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation From Exact Extract:
Pandas API on Spark (pyspark.pandas) allows interoperability with PySpark DataFrames. To convert apyspark.pandas.DataFrameto a standard PySpark DataFrame, you use.to_spark().
Example:
df = psdf.to_spark()
This is the officially supported method as per Databricks Documentation.
Incorrect options:
B, D: Invalid or nonexistent methods.
C: Converts to a local pandas DataFrame, not a PySpark DataFrame.
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Question 29

A data scientist of an e-commerce company is working with user data obtained from its subscriber database and has stored the data in a DataFrame df_user. Before further processing the data, the data scientist wants to create another DataFrame df_user_non_pii and store only the non-PII columns in this DataFrame. The PII columns in df_user are first_name, last_name, email, and birthdate.
Which code snippet can be used to meet this requirement?

Correct Answer: A
Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation:
To remove specific columns from a PySpark DataFrame, the drop() method is used. This method returns a new DataFrame without the specified columns. The correct syntax for dropping multiple columns is to pass each column name as a separate argument to the drop() method.
Correct Usage:
df_user_non_pii = df_user.drop("first_name", "last_name", "email", "birthdate") This line of code will return a new DataFrame df_user_non_pii that excludes the specified PII columns.
Explanation of Options:
A).Correct. Uses the drop() method with multiple column names passed as separate arguments, which is the standard and correct usage in PySpark.
B).Although it appears similar to Option A, if the column names are not enclosed in quotes or if there's a syntax error (e.g., missing quotes or incorrect variable names), it would result in an error. However, as written, it's identical to Option A and thus also correct.
C).Incorrect. The dropfields() method is not a method of the DataFrame class in PySpark. It's used with StructType columns to drop fields from nested structures, not top-level DataFrame columns.
D).Incorrect. Passing a single string with comma-separated column names to dropfields() is not valid syntax in PySpark.
References:
PySpark Documentation:DataFrame.drop
Stack Overflow Discussion:How to delete columns in PySpark DataFrame
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Question 30

Which command overwrites an existing JSON file when writing a DataFrame?

Correct Answer: A
The correct way to overwrite an existing file using the DataFrameWriter is:
df.write.mode("overwrite").json("path/to/file")
Option D is also technically valid, but Option A is the most concise and idiomatic PySpark syntax.
Reference:PySpark DataFrameWriter API
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