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Exam DBDEA Topics: troubleshooting Difficulty: medium

A long-running job on a cluster with spot workers loses one mid-run: the node is reclaimed by the cloud provider, and a shuffle stage that had tasks on that node is suddenly incomplete. A new engineer assumes the whole job run is lost. What actually happens?

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  1. A. Spark re-executes the lost tasks and dependent stages, so the run continues without starting over
  2. B. The entire job run fails immediately, and Lakeflow Jobs restarts the whole thing from the first task
  3. C. The lost tasks are skipped, so the run completes with silently missing partitions
  4. D. Spot reclamation pauses the job until the same node type becomes available again
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Correct answer: Spark re-executes the lost tasks and dependent stages, so the run continues without starting over

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/compute/configure

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