Caching

Question 1

What is Cloudfront?

Answer 1

A CDN (Content Delivery Network)

Question 2

What is Memcached?

Answer 2

A simple DB caching solution

Question 3

What database can you only use DAX caching for?

Answer 3

DynamoDB

Question 4

What data base works best with Elasticache?

Answer 4

RDS

Question 5

What is Global Accelerator?

Answer 5

A networking service that sends your users traffic through AWS’s global network infrastructure. It can help increase performance and help deal with IP caching

Question 6

Is CloudFront the only option to add HTTPS to a static website hosted on S3?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

How do caches help improve performance?

Answer 7

Caching allows you to efficiently reuse previously retrieved or computed data.

Question 8

What type of physical AWS architecture does CloudFront use to improve performance?

Answer 8

Edge Locations

Question 9

What 2 types of caches are supported by ElastiCache?

Answer 9

Redis and Memcached

Question 10

CloudFront is commonly used to front ____.

Answer 10

S3 buckets

Question 11

DAX is designed to sit in front of what AWS data service?

Answer 11

DynamoDB

Question 12

What’s the place where caches can be best used?

Answer 12

Anywhere possible!

Question 13

True or False? Global Accelerator is the only AWS service that allows you to create weights for your application endpoints.

Answer 13

False,

Route 53 can do this

Question 14

What AWS service allows you to easily deal with public IP caching issues?

Answer 14

Global Accelerator