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Big Data Flashcards

1
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What is Redshift?

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A fully managed, petabyte scale data warehouse service in the cloud.

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How much information can Redshift hold?

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16 petabytes

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3
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Is Redshift relational?

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Yes

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4
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What is typical use case for Redshift?

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Business Intelligence

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5
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Is Redshift a better RDS?

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No, Redshift is not meant to replace RDS’s

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What is EMR?

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A managed big data platform that allows you to process vast amounts of data (AWS”s ETL tool)

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What is Kinesis?

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Allows you to ingest process and analyze real time streaming data. (think of it as a huge data highway)

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What is Kinesis data streams for?

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the real time streaming for ingesting data

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What is kinesis data firehose for?

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data transfer tool to get information to S3, Redshift, elasticsearch, or spunk

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What is the downside to Kinesis data stream?

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A lot of work to set up (specify shards and data consumer)

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What can kinesis data firehose be thought of as

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a simpler data stream

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What is Kinesis data analytics?

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allows us to analyze data in the pipeline using standard data

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When would you choose Kinesis over SQS for messages?

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If messages need real time delivery

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Does kinesis data stream or kinesis data firehose automatically scale?

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data streams

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What is AWS Athena?

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An interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in S3 using SQL. This allows you to query from S3 without uploading it to database

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16
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What is AWS Glue?

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A serverless service that allows you to perform ETL workloads without managing underlying servers

17
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If you are ever needing serverless SQL, what should you think of?

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Athena

18
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What is Quicksight?

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A fully managed business intelligence data visualization service

19
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What is AWS data pipeline?

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a managed ETL service for automating movement and transformation of your data

20
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What is a pipeline definition in regards to AWS data pipeline?

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where you specify the business logic of your data

21
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How do you create dependencies between tasks and activities?

A

data driven workflows

22
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What service can you use with AWS data pipeline to alert you of any failures?

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AWS SNS

23
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Does AWS data pipeline have automatic retries for data driven workflows?

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Yes

24
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What does Amazon MSK stand for?

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Amazon managed streaming for apache kafka.

25
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What is Amazon MSK?

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a fully managed service for running data streaming applications that leverage apache kafka

26
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Does Amazon AFK have automatic detection and recovery?

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Yes

27
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What is Amazon MSK Serverless?

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A cluster type within Amazon MSK offering serverless cluster management with automatic provisioning and scaling

28
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What is MSK Connect?

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Allows developers to easily stream data to and from Apache kafka clusters

29
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What is Amazon Open Search service?

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a managed service allowing you to fun search and analytics engines for various use cases

30
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What is the successor to Amazon Elastics Search Service?

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Amazon Open Search

31
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What is typically the best tool for visualizing log file analytics or BI reports?

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Amazon Open Search

32
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What type of database is Redshift?

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relational

33
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Why can’t you do multi-AZ deployments with Redshift?

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You can

34
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What service offers real time streaming of data?

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Kinesis data streams

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