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Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark 3.5 Exam - Topic 7 Question 19 Discussion
Topic #: 7
A Spark developer is building an app to monitor task performance. They need to track the maximum task processing time per worker node and consolidate it on the driver for analysis.
Which technique should be used?
The correct way to aggregate information (e.g., max value) from distributed workers back to the driver is using RDD actions such as reduce() or aggregate().
From the documentation:
''To perform global aggregations on distributed data, actions like reduce() are commonly used to collect summaries such as min/max/avg.''
Accumulators (Option B) do not support max operations directly and are not intended for such analytics.
Broadcast (Option C) is used to send data to workers, not collect from them.
Spark UI (Option D) is a monitoring tool --- not an analytics collection interface.
Final Answer: A
Jody