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intermediate.

### PySpark Basics:

1. What is PySpark?
2. Explain the key features of PySpark.
3. What is the role of SparkContext in PySpark?
4. How can you create a SparkSession in PySpark?
5. What is the difference between a DataFrame and an RDD?
6. Explain the lazy evaluation in PySpark.
7. How does PySpark handle data partitioning?
8. What is the purpose of a lineage graph in PySpark?
9. Explain the concept of transformations and actions in PySpark.
10. How do you install PySpark on your local machine?
11. What are the common sources and sinks in PySpark?
12. Describe the components of the Spark execution model.
13. Explain the significance of the driver program in PySpark.
14. How does PySpark handle fault tolerance?
15. What is the significance of the Spark UI?

### RDD (Resilient Distributed Datasets):

16. What is an RDD in PySpark?

17. How can you create an RDD in PySpark?
18. Explain the difference between narrow and wide transformations.
19. What is the purpose of caching in RDD?
20. How does RDD achieve fault tolerance?
21. What are the operations supported by RDD?
22. Explain the concept of lineage in RDD.
23. How can you persist an RDD in memory?
24. What is the significance of partitions in RDD?
25. Describe the difference between transformations and actions in RDD.
26. How does PySpark handle data shuffling in RDD?
27. Explain the purpose of the `collect` action in RDD.
28. What is the benefit of using broadcast variables in PySpark?
29. How can you perform the union of two RDDs in PySpark?
30. Explain the significance of the `reduce` action in RDD.

### DataFrame:

31. What is a DataFrame in PySpark?

32. How can you create a DataFrame from an existing RDD?
33. Explain the advantages of using DataFrames over RDDs.
34. What is the purpose of the Catalyst optimizer in PySpark?
35. How can you perform schema inference in DataFrames?
36. Explain the concept of a catalyst expression in PySpark.
37. How can you filter rows in a DataFrame?
38. What is the purpose of the `groupBy` operation in DataFrames?
39. How can you join two DataFrames in PySpark?
40. Explain the difference between a narrow and wide transformation in DataFrames.
41. How can you cache a DataFrame in PySpark?
42. What is the purpose of the `explain` method in PySpark DataFrames?
43. How can you handle missing or null values in a DataFrame?
44. Explain the concept of window functions in PySpark.
45. How does DataFrame API support SQL queries in PySpark?
46. What is the role of a catalog in PySpark DataFrames?
47. How can you perform aggregations in PySpark DataFrames?
48. Explain the purpose of the `pivot` operation in PySpark DataFrames.
49. How can you repartition a DataFrame in PySpark?
50. What is the significance of the `withColumn` method in PySpark DataFrames?

### Advanced PySpark:

51. Explain the concept of broadcast joins in PySpark.

52. How can you handle skewed data in PySpark?
53. What is the purpose of the `foreach` action in PySpark?
54. How does PySpark handle dynamic allocation of resources?
55. Explain the role of a shuffle service in PySpark.
56. How can you optimize the performance of PySpark jobs?
57. What is the significance of the `broadcastHashJoin` optimization?
58. How can you use accumulators in PySpark?
59. Explain the purpose of the `groupBy` operation with `rollup` and `cube`.
60. How does PySpark handle data skewness in join operations?
61. What is the purpose of the `explain` method in PySpark SQL execution plans?
62. How can you optimize the storage format of DataFrames in PySpark?
63. Explain the concept of bucketing in PySpark.
64. How does PySpark handle task serialization?
65. What is the purpose of the `coalesce` and `repartition` methods in PySpark?
66. How can you control the level of parallelism in PySpark?
67. Explain the role of the Tungsten execution engine in PySpark.
68. How does PySpark handle speculative execution?
69. What is the purpose of the `first` and `last` aggregation functions in PySpark?
70. How can you use the `except` and `intersect` operations in PySpark?

### SparkSQL:

71. What is SparkSQL in PySpark?

72. How can you execute SQL queries on a DataFrame in PySpark?
73. Explain the purpose of the `registerTempTable` method in SparkSQL.
74. How does SparkSQL handle schema evolution?
75. What is the significance of the `createOrReplaceTempView` method in PySpark?
76. How can you use SparkSQL to query external databases?
77. Explain the concept of a global temporary view in SparkSQL.
78. What is the purpose of the `catalog` in SparkSQL?
79. How does SparkSQL support Hive integration?
80. How can you use the `spark.sql` function in PySpark?

### DataFrame API:

81. How can you select specific columns from a DataFrame?

82. Explain the purpose of the `alias` method in PySpark DataFrames.
83. How can you drop a column from a DataFrame in PySpark?
84. What is the purpose of the `distinct` operation in PySpark DataFrames?
85. How can you perform a cross-join in PySpark DataFrames?
86. Explain the use of the `explode` function in PySpark.
87. How does the `when` and `otherwise` functions work in PySpark DataFrames?
88. What is the purpose of the `groupBy` operation with `agg` method?
89. How can you use the `corr` and `cov` functions in PySpark?
90. Explain the purpose of the `pivot` and `unpivot` functions in PySpark
DataFrames.
91. How can you use the `withColumnRenamed` method in PySpark?
92. What is the significance of the `approxQuantile` function in PySpark?
93. How can you use the `intersect` and `except` operations in PySpark DataFrames?
94. Explain the purpose of the `dropDuplicates` method in PySpark.
95. How does the `withWatermark` method work in PySpark DataFrames?
96. What is the purpose of the `approxCountDistinct` function in PySpark?
97. How can you use the `corr` function to find the correlation between columns?
98. Explain the significance of the `na` functions in PySpark DataFrames.
99. How does the `sort` and `orderBy` operations differ in PySpark DataFrames?
100. What is the purpose of the `stat` functions in PySpark?

### Performance Tuning:

101. How can you optimize the performance of a PySpark job?

102. Explain the purpose of the `broadcast

` method in PySpark.
103. How can you handle data skewness in PySpark?
104. What is the significance of the `parquet` file format in PySpark?
105. How does partitioning affect the performance of PySpark jobs?
106. Explain the purpose of the `repartition` method in PySpark.
107. How can you use the `cache` and `unpersist` methods to manage DataFrame
caching?
108. What is the significance of the `broadcastHashJoin` optimization in PySpark?
109. How does the level of parallelism impact the performance of PySpark jobs?
110. How can you use the `explain` method to analyze the execution plan of a
PySpark job?
111. Explain the purpose of the `coalesce` method in PySpark.
112. How does the use of broadcast variables improve the performance of PySpark
jobs?
113. What is the significance of the Tungsten execution engine in PySpark?
114. How can you use the `bucketBy` method to optimize DataFrame storage?
115. Explain the purpose of the `persist` method in PySpark.
116. How does PySpark handle speculative execution to improve performance?
117. What is the role of the Catalyst optimizer in PySpark?
118. How can you use the `checkpoint` method to improve the fault tolerance of a
PySpark job?
119. Explain the purpose of the `spark.default.parallelism` configuration in
PySpark.
120. How can you use the `foreachPartition` method to optimize data processing in
PySpark?

### Error Handling and Debugging:

121. How can you handle missing or null values in PySpark DataFrames?
122. Explain the purpose of the `except` and `intersect` operations in PySpark.
123. What is the significance of the `dropDuplicates` method in PySpark DataFrames?
124. How can you use the `na` functions to handle missing data in PySpark?
125. Explain the purpose of the `raiseError` method in PySpark.
126. How does PySpark handle errors in lazy evaluation?
127. What is the significance of the `getOrCreate` method in PySpark?
128. How can you use the `isInstanceOf` method for type checking in PySpark?
129. Explain the purpose of the `except` and `intersect` operations in PySpark
DataFrames.
130. How can you use the `exceptAll` and `intersectAll` operations in PySpark?
131. What is the significance of the `coalesce` and `repartition` methods in
PySpark?
132. How does the `sample` method help in debugging PySpark jobs?
133. Explain the purpose of the `explain` method in PySpark.
134. How can you use the `checkpoint` method for fault tolerance in PySpark?
135. What is the significance of the `checkpointLocation` configuration in PySpark?

### Serialization and Caching:

136. How does PySpark handle task serialization?
137. Explain the purpose of the `broadcast` method in PySpark.
138. What is the significance of the `persist` method in PySpark?
139. How can you use the `unpersist` method to release cached resources in PySpark?
140. Explain the purpose of the `storageLevel` parameter in PySpark caching.
141. How does PySpark handle the storage format of DataFrames?
142. What is the significance of the `parquet` file format in PySpark?
143. How can you use the `write` method to save a DataFrame to a file in PySpark?
144. Explain the purpose of the `checkpoint` method in PySpark.
145. How does the `cache` method work in PySpark?
146. What is the role of the Tungsten execution engine in PySpark?
147. How can you use the `coalesce` method to reduce the number of partitions in
PySpark?
148. Explain the purpose of the `bucketBy` method in PySpark.
149. How does PySpark handle speculative execution to improve performance?
150. What is the purpose of the `spark.default.parallelism` configuration in
PySpark?

### Window Functions:

151. What are window functions in PySpark?

152. How can you use the `over` clause with window functions in PySpark?
153. Explain the purpose of the `rank` and `dense_rank` window functions.
154. How does the `partitionBy` clause affect window functions in PySpark?
155. What is the significance of the `orderBy` clause in window functions?
156. How can you use the `lag` and `lead` window functions in PySpark?
157. Explain the purpose of the `first_value` and `last_value` window functions.
158. How does the `rangeBetween` clause work in PySpark window functions?
159. What is the significance of the `rowsBetween` clause in window functions?
160. How can you use the `percent_rank` and `cume_dist` window functions in
PySpark?
161. Explain the purpose of the `nth_value` window function in PySpark.
162. How does the `currentRow` clause work in window functions?
163. What is the role of the `unboundedPreceding` clause in PySpark window
functions?
164. How can you use the `avg`, `sum`, `min`, and `max` window functions in
PySpark?
165. Explain the significance of the `dense_rank` window function in PySpark.
166. How does the `unboundedFollowing` clause work in PySpark window functions?
167. What is the purpose of the `rangeBetween` and `rowsBetween` clauses in window
functions?
168. How can you use the `percentile` and `ntile` window functions in PySpark?
169. Explain the role of the `currentRow` clause in PySpark window functions.
170. How does the `lead` and `lag` window functions handle null values in PySpark?

### SparkSQL:

171. What is the purpose of SparkSQL in PySpark?

172. How can you execute SQL queries on a DataFrame in PySpark?
173. Explain the significance of the `createOrReplaceTempView` method in SparkSQL.
174. How does SparkSQL handle schema evolution?
175. What is the significance of the `registerTempTable` method in SparkSQL?
176. How can you use SparkSQL to query external databases?
177. Explain the concept of a global temporary view in SparkSQL.
178. How does SparkSQL support Hive integration?
179. What is the purpose of the `catalog` in SparkSQL?
180. How can you use the `spark.sql` function in PySpark?

### DataFrame API:

181. How can you select specific columns from a DataFrame?
182. Explain the purpose of the `alias` method in PySpark DataFrames.
183. How can you drop a column from a DataFrame in PySpark?
184. What is the purpose of the `distinct` operation in PySpark DataFrames?
185. How can you perform a cross-join in PySpark DataFrames?
186. Explain the use of the `explode` function in PySpark.
187. How does the `when` and `otherwise` functions work in PySpark DataFrames?
188. What is the purpose of the `groupBy` operation with `agg` method?
189. How can you use the `corr` and `cov` functions in PySpark?
190. Explain the purpose of the `pivot` and `unpivot` functions

191. How does the `withColumnRenamed` method work in PySpark?

192. What is the significance of the `approxQuantile` function in PySpark?
193. How can you use the `intersect` and `except` operations in PySpark DataFrames?
194. Explain the purpose of the `dropDuplicates` method in PySpark.
195. How does the `withWatermark` method work in PySpark DataFrames?
196. What is the purpose of the `approxCountDistinct` function in PySpark?
197. How can you use the `corr` function to find the correlation between columns?
198. Explain the significance of the `na` functions in PySpark DataFrames.
199. How does the `sort` and `orderBy` operations differ in PySpark DataFrames?
200. What is the purpose of the `stat` functions in PySpark?

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