Quiz - Chapter 19 - Caching Overview

Question 1

True or False? Global Accelerator is the only AWS service that allows you to create weights for your application endpoints.

Answer 1

FALSE

Route 53 can also do this

Question 2

What 2 types of caches are supported by ElastiCache?

Answer 2

Redis and Memcached

ElastiCache is a managed version of Redis and Memcached

Question 3

What AWS service allows you to easily deal with public IP caching issues?

Answer 3

Global Accelerator can help deal with IP caching issues by providing static IPs.

Question 4

What type of physical AWS architecture does CloudFront use to improve performance?

Answer 4

Edge Locations

CloudFront uses Edge Locations to speed up the delivery of your content.

Question 5

Caches are best placed __.

Answer 5

Anywhere Possible

Caches allow you to increase your application performance and are usually a great idea everywhere!

Question 6

How do caches help improve performance?

Answer 6

They reduce the amount of trips that are required to the source of the data.