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Databases 101 Flashcards

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What are the 6 flavors of relational databases engines that are compatible with Amazon?

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  • SQLServer
  • MySQLServer
  • Aurora
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • MariaDB
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What are the 2 key features of RDS? What are they primarily for?

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  • Multi-AZ (for distaster recovery)
  • Read Replicas (for performance)
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Does RDS Multi-AZ require changing the connection string?

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If you lose access to your primary database, AWS can automatically point incoming requests to your secondary database without changing the connection string

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How do Read Replicas work in RDS?

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  • There is no automatic failover. If your primary instance goes down, you’ll need to create a new URL to connect to the secondary instance
  • All writes to the primary instance are copied over to the read replica(s)
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Suppose you want to be able to handle a surge of incoming traffic to your RDS instance and scale out your application. What key feature of RDS would you use to do this?

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Read Replicas

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What is the maximum number of read replicas that can be made from a single primary RDS instance?

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up to 5 copies

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What is a non-relational database best analagous to?

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A JSON Object

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What is the difference between OLTP and OLAP?

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  • Big difference is in the types of queries you will run
  • OLTP is for a specific transaction
  • OLAP will pull in a lot of data
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What is Amazon’s data warehousing solution?

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Redshift

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What is Elasticache?

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Elasticache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud.

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What is the benefit of using Elasticache?

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  • Elasticached is used to speed up performance of existing databases
  • frequent identical queries
  • Elasticache improves the performance of web applications by allowing you to retrieve information from fast, managed in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower, disk-based databases.
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What are the two types of open-source in-memory caching engines that Elasticache supports?

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  • Memcached
  • Redis
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Does RDS run on virtual machines?

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Yes

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How can you log in to the OS of an RDS instance?

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You can’t

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How can you patch the OS or database of an RDS instance?

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This is Amazon’s responsibility (you can’t)

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Is RDS Serverless?

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No, (except for Aurora)

RDS runs on virtual machines

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What is the use case for Elasticache?

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Use Elasticache to increase DB and web application performance

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Does memcached support Multi-AZ?

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No

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Does memcached support Backup and Restore?

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No

20
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Does memcached support multi-threaded performance?

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Yes

21
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Does redis support multi-threaded performance?

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No

22
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Does redis support Multi-AZ?

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Yes

23
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Does Redis support Backup and Restore?

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Yes

24
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What is AWS DMS used for?

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DMS allows you to migrate services from one source to AWS

25
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What is the difference between a homogenous migration and a heterogeneous migration?

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  • Homogenous migrations go between the same database engines
  • Heterogenous migrations go between two different database engines
26
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What types of infrastructures can be used as a DMS Source?

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The source can be:

  • On-premises
  • inside AWS itself
  • another cloud storage provider (like Azure)
27
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What does SCT stand for?

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Schema Conversion Tool

28
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Do you need AWS SCT for a homogenous migration?

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No

29
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Do you need AWS SCT for a heterogenous migration?

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Yes

30
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What concerns need to be balanced when cacheing on AWS?

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Cacheing is a balancing act between up-to-date information and latency

31
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What are the services on AWS that use cacheing?

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  • CloudFront
  • API Gateway
  • Elasticache (memchached and redis)
  • DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
32
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What does EMR stand for?

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Elastic Map-Reduce

33
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What is AWS EMR?

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EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open-source tools like Apache Splunk, Apache hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto

34
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At what scale can AWS EMR run analysis?

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EMR can run petabyte-scale analysis

35
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What is the cost-saving estimate for EMR over traditional on-premises solutions?

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EMR offers analysis at less than half the cost of traditional on-premises solutions

36
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What is the estimated speed increase of EMR over Apache Spark?

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3x faster

37
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What is a cluster in AWS EMR?

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A collection of EC2 instances, each of which is called a node

38
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What are the three node types in EMR?

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  • Master Node
  • Core Node
  • Task Node
39
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What is the purpose of a master node in EMR?

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The master node manages the cluster and tracks the status of tasks.

Every cluster has a master node

40
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What is the purpose of a core node in EMR?

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A core node runs tasks and stores data in HDFS.

Multi-node clusters have at least one core node

41
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What does HDFS stand for?

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Hadoop Distributed File System

42
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What is the purpose of a task node in AWS EMR?

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A task node runs tasks, but does NOT store data in HDFS

they are optional for your cluster.

43
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Suppose your EMR cluster wants to be able view log files even after the master node terminates. Is this possible?

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Yes, you can configure a cluster to periodically archive the log files stored on the master node to S3.

This ensures log files are available after the cluster terminates, whether through a normal shutdown or due to an error.

Note that this is only possible when you are creating the cluster for the first time

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How often does EMR archive log files to S3?

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5-minute intervals

45
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By default, how is log data stored in EMR?

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By default, log data is stored on the master node

46
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Can Elasticache be used for Pub/Sub type systems?

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Yes

47
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Can you encrypt an unencrypted database snapshot?

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No

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