Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark Practice Mode

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  - MEMORY_ONLY_SER (and MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER) store data as serialized byte arrays, saving memory at the cost of CPU during reads. MEMORY_ONLY uses deserialized Java objects. DISK_ONLY skips memory. Python users often implicitly use serialized storage because PySpark exchanges data via pickle.