A job reads from a sequential file using a SequentialFile stage with option “number of readers” set
to 2. This data goes to a Transformer stage and then is written to a dataset using the DataSet
stage. The default configuration file has three nodes. The environment variable
$APT_DISABLE_COMBINATION is set to “True” and partitioning is set to “Auto”. How many
processes will be created?

A.
5

B.
7

C.
9

D.
12

Explanation: