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Databases Flashcards

1
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How to implement synchronous data replication for the RDS database to help meet the RTO?

A

When creating a database enable Multi-AZ

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How to implement asynchronous data replication for the RDS database?

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Create Read Replica

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3
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AWS Database that can run complex analytic queries against terabytes of structured data, using sophisticated query optimization, columnar storage on high-performance storage, and massively parallel query execution

A

Redshift

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4
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How long will a failover of an RDS database typically complete if Multi-AZ is enabled?

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1-2 minutes

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5
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Database type that is great for transactional data

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Relational Database

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6
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How to setup Automatic Failover in RDS

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Turn on MultiAZ

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7
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Can you change the instance size of RDS

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Yes, but you may have downtime

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8
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Automated Backups Default for RDS

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7 days

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9
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Automated Backup range for RDS

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0 - 35 days

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10
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Aurora compatible Databases

A

MySQL PostgresQL

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11
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Max Read Replicas with Arurora

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15

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12
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Aurora Serverless compatible Databases

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MySQL

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13
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ACID compliant Document Databases

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DynamoDB

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14
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DynamoDB Consistency

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Eventually Consistently by default

Strong Consistent Available

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15
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Request Throughput of DynamoDB

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1 RCU 1 item 4 KB/sec
1 WCU 1 item 1 KB/sec

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16
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Does DynamoDB scale automatically

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Yes

You can also schedule automatically and set a max and min throughput

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17
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DynamoDB Streams are kept for up to what length of time

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24 hrs

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18
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How to help a read heavy DynamoDB table to reduce latency of reads

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Enable DAX caching

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If you have customers in multiple regions, and app uses DynamoDB how to make it so customers are not impacted by latency

A

DynamoDB global tables

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20
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Consistency of DynamoDB Global Tables

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Eventually Consistency ONLY across regions, for Strong consistent have to be in same region

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21
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How to expire items in DynamoDB

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Set a TTL

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22
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If you turn on PITR in DynamoDB how long does this data go back?

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35 days

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23
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What services can you use to migrate data to DynamoDB?

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AWS Data Pipeline
AWS Glue
AWS EMR Hive (DynamoDB connector)
AWS DMS (cassandra or Mongo to Dynamo)

24
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How many local secondary indexes can you have with a DynamoDB table?

25
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Local Secondary Index Consistency Support

A

Strong and Eventually consistent reads

26
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Describe Local Secondary Index

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Created on Table Creation

Same partition Key
Different Sort Key

27
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Describe Global Secondary Index

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Partition can span all keys (does not need to be unique) and any sort key

Can be created at any time

28
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Max number of Global Secondary Indexes

29
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Global Secondary Index Consistency Support

A

Eventually Consistent ONLY

30
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Size limit of items in DynamoDB

31
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Recommended item size in DynamoDB

32
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DynamoDB how to ensure that item has not changed since you read it?

A

Use optimistic locking w/ version #

33
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2 Flavors of Elasticache

A

Memcached
Redis

34
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Can Elasticache be used on prem?

A

Yes, 2 options
VPN or Direct Connect

35
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Describe MemcacheD

A

easier, simpler data, static data

36
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Describe Redis

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more complex and ever changing data. Use if need HIPPA compliant

37
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Caching Strategies for DynamoDB

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Lazy Loading - write to cache when data requested

Write Through - proactive caching on write to DB

38
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Use case of Elasticache

A

Real Time Leaderboards

39
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Service used to migrate databases to AWS

A

Amazon DMS

40
Q

If heterogenous transitions how to translate schema before DMS.

A

Use Amazon Conversion Schema Tool (SCT)

41
Q

Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance.

A

MemoryDB for Redis

42
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Mongo Compatible Database

A

DocumentDB

43
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Wide Column Database compatible with Apache Cassandra

A

Amazon Keyspaces

44
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Graph Database

44
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Serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational application

A

Amazon Timestreams

45
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Ledger database. Immutable records.

46
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Petabyte scale, fully managed data warehousing service.

47
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What types of Data/file formats can Amazon Redshift Spectrum Query in S3

A

Avro, CSV, JSON, ORC, and Parquet

48
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Language that you can use to query Redshift

A

SQL (Postgre)

49
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How to migrate to Redshift

A

Workload Qualification Framework (WQF) which uses AWS Schema Conversion Tool

50
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For an Aurora Database how to direct the write operations of the production traffic to your high-capacity instances and point the reporting queries sent by your internal staff to the low-capacity instances.

A

Create a custom endpoint in Aurora based on the specified criteria for the production traffic and another custom endpoint to handle the reporting queries

51
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How to automatically backup a DynamoDB table to another region or account

A

AWS Backup

52
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How to automatically backup a DynamoDB table in the same region and account

A

Enable DynamoDB PITR

53
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What are the events that will make Amazon RDS automatically perform a failover to the standby replica?

A

Loss of availability in primary Availability Zone.

Loss of network connectivity to primary.

Compute unit failure on primary.

Storage failure on primary.

54
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What should you do if your RDS instance is running out of disk space?

A

Enable Storage Autoscaling (you can set a max threshold)

55
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Max backup retention for RDS database?

56
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RDS can you connect to standby instance if MULTI-AZ is turned on?

A

FALSE, only primary

AWS SAA-C03 (14 decks)

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