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DynamoDB Flashcards

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What is AWS DynamoDB?

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DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL DB service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit milliscond latency at any scale

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Does DynamoDB support document data models?

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Yes

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Does DynamoDB support key-value data models?

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Yes

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Where is DynamoDB data stored?

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On SSD storage

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How does Dynamo DB provide data redundancy?

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Data in DynamoDB is spread across 3 geographically distinct data centers

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What is the data consistency model for DynamoDB?

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Eventually Consistent Reads by Default

Strongly Consistent Reads as an option

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Roughly when are Eventually Consistent Reads consistent?

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Data consistency is usually reached within 1 second

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What are Strongly Consistent Reads?

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A strongly consistent read reflects all writes that received a successful response prior to the read.

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What does DAX stand for?

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DynamoDB Accelerator

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What is AWS DAX?

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Fully managed, highly-available in-memory cache for DynamoDB

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What is the performance improvement offered by AWS DAX?

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10x performance improvement over DB standalone

Reduces request time from milliseconds to microseconds

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What does the developer need to do to manage the logic in AWS DAX?

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Nothing. The caching logic is fully managed by AWS

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Can AWS DAX also provide write speedup?

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Yes, it is a write-through cache

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What does DynamoDB Transactions assist with?

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Atomic operations

(Think money transfer, can’t debit one account without crediting another)

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How does using DynamoDB Transactions affect read/write capacity?

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Transactions does 2 underlying reads or writes of every item in the transaction, one to prepare, and one to commit.

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What is DynamoDB On-Demand Capacity?

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Pay-per-request pricing

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17
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What is the minimum capacity required for DynamoDB On-Demand capacity?

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There is none!

18
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What is the pricing model for DynamoDB On-Demand Capacity?

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  • No charge for read/write while the table is idle, only for storage and backups
  • Pay more per request than with provisioned capacity
19
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What is the recommended use case for DynamoDB On-Demand Capacity?

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New Product Launches, when you don’t have a sense ahead of time of how much traffic to expect

20
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What is the maximum amount of data on which DynamoDB Transactions can operate at any time?

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25 items or 4MB of data

21
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What is the performance hit of AWS DynamoDB On-Demand Backup and Restore?

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There is zero impact on table performance

22
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What is the availability hit of using DynamoDB On-Demand Backup & Restore?

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There is zero impact on table availability

23
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What is the data consistency model for DynamoDB On-Demand Backup and Restore?

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Data is consistent within seconds

24
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What is the data retention model for DynamoDB On-Demand Backup & Restore?

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Data is retained until deleted

25
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Can you have a DynamoDB On-Demand Backup in the same region as the source table?

26
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Can you have a DynamoDB On-Demand Backup in a different region from your source table?

27
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What does PITR stand for?

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Point-In-Time Recovery

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What is the purpose of DynamoDB PITR?

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To protect against accidental writes and deletes

29
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How far back can you restore using PITR?

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Restore to any point in the last 35 days

30
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How is DynamoDB backup data stored?

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DynamoDB keeps incremental backups of your data

31
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Is DynamoDB PITR enabled by default?

32
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With DynamoDB PITR, how far back is the latest restorable time stamp?

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Typically 5 minutes in the past

33
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What is a DynamoDB Stream?

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A time-ordered sequence of item-level changes in a table

34
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How long is info stored in DynamoDB Stream?

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Info is stored for 24 hours

35
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If you wanted to imitate a stored procedure functionality in Dynamo DB, how might you do it?

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Combine Streams with AWS Lambda Functions

36
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What does DMS stand for?

A

Database Migration Service

37
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What are some of the ways you can get security in DynamoDB?

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  • Encryption at Rest (with KMS)
  • site-to-site VPN
  • Direct Connect
  • IAM Policies & Roles (or fine-grained access)
  • mornitoring using CloudWatch and CloudTrail
  • VPC endpoints
38
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How is data in DynamoDB stored?

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It is stored in JSON Format

39
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What is the maximum allowed item size in DynamoDB?

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The key and value combined can be at most 400KB

40
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Which storage service is best for storing object metadata?

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