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Write a PySpark script to filter out invalid records from a dataset and calculate the average for a specific column, ensuring the schema is strictly defined at runtime.

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Bristol Myers Squibb
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Write a PySpark script to process data stored in Delta format and transform it into Parquet.

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Tredence
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43

Write a PySpark script to read a CSV file, filter rows where the age column is less than 18, and write the result to a new CSV file.

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Freight Tiger
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44

Write a complete PySpark program from import statements to the stop statement, covering transformations and actions.

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Carelon
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45

Write a transformation in PySpark to join and clean multiple raw input sources

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Netflix
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46

Write code to read data from Delta Lake in S3 and perform upsert based on primary key

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Walmart
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47

Write maintainable, efficient Pandas or PySpark code.

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Apple
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48

Your Kafka producer schema has changed, and the new data includes additional fields. How would you ensure backward compatibility using Schema Registry while consuming data from the same topic?

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Dunnhumby
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49

Z-Ordering - use cases for partitioned Delta tables

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Myntra
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