Big Data Whitepaper

Question 1

What is the minimum number of DPUs required for a Glue ETL job?

Answer 1

2

Question 2

What is the default number of DPUs allocated to a Glue ETL job

Answer 2

10

Question 3

What two languages does Glue ETL use when generating code?

Answer 3

Python and Spark

Question 4

What is the minimum interval for Glue ETL jobs?

Answer 4

5 minutes (not the right tool for streaming data)

Question 5

What kind of databases is AWS Glue not compatible with?

Answer 5

NoSQL

Question 6

What is the maximum item size in DynamoDB?

Answer 6

400KB

Question 7

How many data centers is DynamoDB replicated across?

Answer 7

3

Question 8

What needs to be used to achieve regional replication in DynamoDB?

Answer 8

DynamoDB Streams

Question 9

By default, how often does Elasticsearch take snapshots and backup to S3?

Answer 9

Daily

Question 10

What is the maximum EBS volume size per Elasticsearch instance?

Answer 10

1.5TB

Question 11

What is the default maximum number of nodes per ES domain?

Answer 11

20

Question 12

What is the absolute maximum number of nodes per ES domain?

Answer 12

100

Question 13

What are two anti-patterns for ES?

Answer 13

OLTP and Ad-hoc queries

Question 14

What Quicksight edition must be used if requiring encryption at rest?

Answer 14

Enterprise

Question 15

When should EC2 be used in a big data setting vs other serverless or managed solutions?

Answer 15

Specialized environments or compliance requirements

Question 16

What are some notebooks that can be used with Athena?

Answer 16

RStudio, Jupyter, Zeppeling