Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark Practice Mode

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  - Spark accumulates transformations into a logical plan and only executes when an action (e.g., count, collect, write) is invoked. This allows the Catalyst optimizer to reorder and fuse operations, producing an efficient physical plan. This differs from eager execution where each operation runs immediately.