Explanation
Spark achieves great performance by storing data in the DAG format, whereas Hadoop can only use parquet files.
Wrong, there is no "DAG format". DAG stands for "directed acyclic graph". The DAG is a means of representing computational steps in Spark. However, it is true that Hadoop does not use a DAG.
The introduction of the DAG in Spark was a result of the limitation of Hadoop's map reduce framework in which data had to be written to and read from disk continuously.
Graph DAG in Apache Spark - DataFlair
Spark achieves great performance by storing data in the HDFS format, whereas Hadoop can only use parquet files.
No. Spark can certainly store data in HDFS (as well as other formats), but this is not a key performance advantage over Hadoop. Hadoop can use multiple file formats, not only parquet.
Spark achieves higher resiliency for queries since, different from Hadoop, it can be deployed on Kubernetes.
No, resiliency is not asked for in the question. The question is about performance improvements.
Both Hadoop and Spark can be deployed on Kubernetes.
Spark achieves performance gains for developers by extending Hadoop's DataFrames with a user-friendly API.
No. DataFrames are a concept in Spark, but not in Hadoop.

Explanation
Correct code block:
len(spark.read.csv(filePath, comment='#').columns)
This is a challenging question with difficulties in an unusual context: The boundary between DataFrame and the DataFrameReader. It is unlikely that a question of this difficulty level appears in the exam. However, solving it helps you get more comfortable with the DataFrameReader, a subject you will likely have to deal with in the exam.
Before dealing with the inner parentheses, it is easier to figure out the outer parentheses, gaps 1 and 5. Given the code block, the object in gap 5 would have to be evaluated by the object in gap 1, returning the number of columns in the read-in CSV. One answer option includes DataFrame in gap 1 and shape[0] in gap 2. Since DataFrame cannot be used to evaluate shape[0], we can discard this answer option.
Other answer options include size in gap 1. size() is not a built-in Python command, so if we use it, it would have to come from somewhere else. pyspark.sql.functions includes a size() method, but this method only returns the length of an array or map stored within a column (documentation linked below).
So, using a size() method is not an option here. This leaves us with two potentially valid answers.
We have to pick between gaps 2 and 3 being spark.read or pyspark.DataFrameReader. Looking at the documentation (linked below), the DataFrameReader is actually a child class of pyspark.sql, which means that we cannot import it using pyspark.DataFrameReader. Moreover, spark.read makes sense because on Databricks, spark references current Spark session (pyspark.sql.SparkSession) and spark.read therefore returns a DataFrameReader (also see documentation below). Finally, there is only one correct answer option remaining.
More info:
- pyspark.sql.functions.size - PySpark 3.1.2 documentation
- pyspark.sql.DataFrameReader.csv - PySpark 3.1.2 documentation
- pyspark.sql.SparkSession.read - PySpark 3.1.2 documentation
Static notebook | Dynamic notebook: See test 3

Explanation
Correct code block:
transactionsDf.write.format("parquet").partitionBy("storeId").save("/FileStore/transactions_split") More info: partition by - Reading files which are written using PartitionBy or BucketBy in Spark - Stack Overflow Static notebook | Dynamic notebook: See test 1

Explanation
The correct code block is:
transactionsDf.filter(col("storeId")==25).take(5)
Any of the options with collect will not work because collect does not take any arguments, and in both cases the argument 5 is given.
The option with toLocalIterator will not work because the only argument to toLocalIterator is prefetchPartitions which is a boolean, so passing 5 here does not make sense.
The option using head will not work because the expression passed to select is not proper syntax. It would work if the expression would be col("storeId")==25.
Static notebook | Dynamic notebook: See test 1
(https://flrs.github.io/spark_practice_tests_code/#1/24.html ,
https://bit.ly/sparkpracticeexams_import_instructions)

Explanation
Output of correct code block:
+-------------------+
| supplier|
+-------------------+
|Sports Company Inc.|
+-------------------+
Key to managing this question is understand which operator to use to do the opposite of an operation
- the ~ (not) operator. In addition, you should know that there is no unique() method.
Static notebook | Dynamic notebook: See test 1