Exam Associate-Developer-Apache-Spark-3.5 Topic 1 Question 74 Discussion

Actual exam question for Databricks's Associate-Developer-Apache-Spark-3.5 exam
Question #: 74
Topic #: 1
Which command overwrites an existing JSON file when writing a DataFrame?

Suggested Answer: A Vote an answer

The correct way to overwrite an existing file using the DataFrameWriter is:
df.write.mode("overwrite").json("path/to/file")
Option D is also technically valid, but Option A is the most concise and idiomatic PySpark syntax.

by Nina at Apr 20, 2026, 12:26 AM

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