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What is the term used to describe actors that create other actors?
How many common recovery steps are there when a worker hits a problem?
What type of actors watch actors on other nodes in the cluster?
What is a major reason for the need to run code concurrently?
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What is the name of the manifesto that Akka adheres to?
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What is one of the requirements of reactive applications?
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What is a characteristic of messages in the Actor Model?
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What does Akka create a layer between?
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What is the purpose of an actor's mailbox?
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What is the role of the Dispatcher in the Actor Model?
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What can an actor do according to the Actor Model?
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What happens to the workload when an office is larger?
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How does an actor process messages from other actors?
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What is sent to the office and then routed to each worker?
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What happens when messages arrive faster than the workers can perform each task?
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When do workers occupy desks in an asynchronous system?
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What feature is available in actor systems that run in a cluster?
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What is the primary function of an actor's createReceive() method?
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What is an ActorSystem in Akka?
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What can an actor do upon receiving a message?
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What is the purpose of the matchAny() method?
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What is the entry point for creating or looking up actors in Akka?
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What is the parent class of an actor implementation in Akka?
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What is the purpose of the Props class in Akka?
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How can you create a child actor in Akka?
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What are the two predefined methods provided by Akka for message exchange?
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What is the purpose of the preStart() method in Akka's actor life cycle?
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How do actors communicate with each other in Akka?
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What is the purpose of the ActorSystem in Akka?
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