SQS,SNS,Elastic Beanstalk,CloudFormation

Question 1

Default visibility timeout

Answer 1

30 seconds

Question 2

Max visibility timeout of a message in queue

Answer 2

12 hours

Question 3

API call to update the message visibility timeout

Answer 3

ChangeMessageVisibility

Question 4

How can you stop constant polling or save money when polling SQS queues

Answer 4

SQS Long Polling - does not return a response until a message arrives in the queue

Question 5

Maximum Long Poll Time Out

Answer 5

20 seconds

Question 6

How to you fan out SQS queues

Answer 6

Create an SNS topic then create and subscribe multiple SQS queues to the topic. After that any messages sent to the SNS topic this message will be fanned out or delivered to all of the SQS queues.

Question 7

What is the max retention period of a message?

Answer 7

14 days

Question 8

How large can a SQS message be?

Answer 8

256KB

Question 9

T/F - SNS is a pull based service

Answer 9

False

Question 10

What protocols are supported by SNS

Answer 10

HTTP, HTTPS, Email, EMail-JSON, SQS, Applicaiton

Question 11

T/F - SNS message can be customized for each protocol

Answer 11

True

Question 12

When using CloudFormation to create a virtual data center and you need to output the DNS name of your load balancer what command would you use?

Answer 12

FN::GetAtt

Question 13

What is the default scripting notation for CloudFormation

Answer 13

JSON

Question 14

What can Elastic Beanstalk come preconfigured with

Answer 14

IIS, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tomcat, Docker (Glassfish and Python)