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What are the trade-offs between using Glue Catalog vs. Hive Metastore for metadata management?

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What are transient clusters in EMR, and when would you use them?

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What configurations are needed to pass parameters to a Databricks notebook?

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What file format does Delta Lake use, and why is it beneficial?

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What happens if the vacuum command is not run periodically?

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What happens when an executor fails during a task execution?

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What is Avro file format & what is its significance in delta tables?

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What is Databricks Auto Loader, and how does it handle new files?

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