Big Data

Question 1

What is Redshift?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

How much information can Redshift hold?

Answer 2

16 petabytes

Question 3

Is Redshift relational?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

What is typical use case for Redshift?

Answer 4

Business Intelligence

Question 5

Is Redshift a better RDS?

Answer 5

No, Redshift is not meant to replace RDS’s

Question 6

What is EMR?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is Kinesis?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is Kinesis data streams for?

Answer 8

the real time streaming for ingesting data

Question 9

What is kinesis data firehose for?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What is the downside to Kinesis data stream?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What can kinesis data firehose be thought of as

Answer 11

a simpler data stream

Question 12

What is Kinesis data analytics?

Answer 12

allows us to analyze data in the pipeline using standard data

Question 13

When would you choose Kinesis over SQS for messages?

Answer 13

If messages need real time delivery

Question 14

Does kinesis data stream or kinesis data firehose automatically scale?

Answer 14

data streams

Question 15

What is AWS Athena?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What is AWS Glue?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Athena

Question 18

What is Quicksight?

Answer 18

A fully managed business intelligence data visualization service

Question 19

What is AWS data pipeline?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

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

Answer 20

where you specify the business logic of your data

Question 21

How do you create dependencies between tasks and activities?

Answer 21

data driven workflows

Question 22

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

Answer 22

AWS SNS

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Yes

Question 24

What does Amazon MSK stand for?

Answer 24

Amazon managed streaming for apache kafka.

Question 25

What is Amazon MSK?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Does Amazon AFK have automatic detection and recovery?

Answer 26

Yes

Question 27

What is Amazon MSK Serverless?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

What is MSK Connect?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

What is Amazon Open Search service?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What is the successor to Amazon Elastics Search Service?

Answer 30

Amazon Open Search

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Amazon Open Search

Question 32

What type of database is Redshift?

Answer 32

relational

Question 33

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

Answer 33

You can

Question 34

What service offers real time streaming of data?

Answer 34

Kinesis data streams