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Databricks Interview Questions

The document provides an overview of Databricks, including its integration with Apache Spark, architecture, and collaborative features for data teams. It includes practical coding examples for creating and managing Delta tables, visualizing data, and implementing ETL jobs, as well as troubleshooting and optimizing costs. Additionally, it covers the use of Databricks Utilities and error handling in data operations.

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Databricks Interview Questions

The document provides an overview of Databricks, including its integration with Apache Spark, architecture, and collaborative features for data teams. It includes practical coding examples for creating and managing Delta tables, visualizing data, and implementing ETL jobs, as well as troubleshooting and optimizing costs. Additionally, it covers the use of Databricks Utilities and error handling in data operations.

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Informative Questions

1. What is Databricks, and how does it integrate with Apache


Spark?
2. Explain the architecture of Databricks and its key components
like workspaces and clusters.
3. How does Databricks support collaborative development among
data teams?
4. What are notebooks in Databricks, and how are they used for
data analysis?
5. Discuss the benefits of using Delta Lake with Databricks for data
management.
Scenario-Based Questions
1. You need to schedule an ETL job on Databricks; what tools or
features would you use?
2. How would you handle version control for notebooks in
Databricks?
3. Imagine your job fails due to resource constraints; what steps
would you take to troubleshoot this issue?
4. If your team needs real-time analytics capabilities, how would
you implement this using Databricks?
5. How would you optimize costs when running multiple jobs on
Databricks clusters?
1. Write code to create a Delta table from an existing DataFrame in
Databricks:
df.write.format("delta").save("/mnt/delta/my_table")
2. Show how to read data from an existing Delta table into a
DataFrame:
delta_df = spark.read.format("delta").load("/mnt/delta/my_table")
delta_df.show()
3. Implement an upsert operation on a Delta table using PySpark:
from delta.tables import *

deltaTable = DeltaTable.forPath(spark, "/mnt/delta/my_table")

updatesDF = spark.createDataFrame([(1, "Updated Name")], ["ID",


"Name"])

deltaTable.alias("oldData") \
.merge(updatesDF.alias("newData"), "oldData.ID = newData.ID") \
.whenMatchedUpdate(set={"Name": "newData.Name"}) \
.whenNotMatchedInsert(values={"ID": "newData.ID", "Name":
"newData.Name"}) \
.execute()
4. Write code to visualize data using the display() function within
Databricks notebooks:
display(delta_df)
5. Create SQL queries within Databricks notebooks to count records in
a Delta table:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM my_table;
6. Show how to create and manage clusters programmatically using
Databricks REST API (pseudo-code):
import requests

url = 'https://<databricks-instance>/api/2.0/clusters/create'

payload = {
"cluster_name": "My Cluster",
"spark_version": "7.x-scala2.x",
"node_type_id": "i3.xlarge",
"num_workers": 2,
# Additional configuration...
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload,
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"})
print(response.json())
7. Implement code to optimize Delta tables by vacuuming old files:
spark.sql("VACUUM '/mnt/delta/my_table' RETAIN 168 HOURS")
8. Write code that uses Databricks Utilities (dbutils) to list files in
DBFS:
files = dbutils.fs.ls("/mnt/delta/")
for file in files:
print(file.name)
9. Show how to create and use widgets in Databricks notebooks for
parameterized queries:
dbutils.widgets.text("input_text", "")
input_value = dbutils.widgets.get("input_text")
print(f"Input value is: {input_value}")
10. Write code that demonstrates error handling when reading from
an external source (e.g., S3 bucket):
try:
s3_df = spark.read.csv("s3a://my-bucket/data.csv")
s3_df.show()
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error reading data: {e}")

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