Kinesis

Question 1

_____ is a platform on AWS to send your streaming data to.

Answer 1

Kinesis

Question 2

____ makes it easy to load and analyze streaming data, and also providing the ability for you to build your own custom apps for your business needs.

Answer 2

Kinesis

Question 3

______ data is data that is generated continuously by thousands of data sources, which typically send in the data records simultaneously, and in small sizes (order of KB).

Answer 3

streaming

Question 4

which are Types of streaming data:

1. purchases online
2. stock prices
3. game data (as the game plays)
4. social network data
5. geospacial data (think uber)
6. IOT sensor data

Answer 4

all of the above

Question 5

The 3 Kinesis services are:

Answer 5

1. Kinesis Data Stream: is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service.
2. Kinesis Firehose: is the easiest way to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services.
3. Kinesis Analytics: provides built-in functions to filter, aggregate, and transform streaming data for advanced analytics.

Question 6

Kinesis Streams consist of ____

Answer 6

Shards.

Shard is the base throughput unit of an Amazon Kinesis data stream. One shard provides a capacity of 1MB/sec data input and 2MB/sec data output. One shard can support up to 1000 PUT records per second. You will specify the number of shards needed when you create a data stream.

Question 7

___ transactions / second for reads, up to a max total data read rate of ___MB/second and UP to _____ records/second for writes, up to a max total data write rate of __MB/second (including partition keys).

Answer 7

5,

2,

1,000,

1

Question 8

The data capacity of the stream is a function of the number of _____that you specify for the stream. The total capacity of the stream is the sum of the capacities of its _____.

Answer 8

Shards