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Databases Knowledge Check (Assessment)

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Question 1 1 / 1 pts

You are designing an ecommerce web application that will scale to hundreds of thousands of
concurrent users. Which database technology is best suited to hold the session state in this
example?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

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Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

NoSQL databases like Amazon DynamoDB excel at scaling to hundreds of thousands of

requests with key/value access to user profile and session.

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Question 2 0 / 1 pts

You need to find an item in an Amazon DynamoDB table using an attribute other than the items
primary key. Which of the following operations should you use? (Select the best answer.)

PutItem

Scan

Query

GetItem

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Question 3 1 / 1 pts

In Amazon DynamoDB, what does the query operation enable you to do? (Select the best answer.)

Query a table using the partition key and an optional sort key filter

Query any secondary indexes that exist for a table

Efficiently retrieve items from a table or secondary index

All of the above

In Amazon DynamoDB, the query operation allows you to do all of these things.

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Question 4 0 / 1 pts

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Which AWS Cloud service is best suited for analyzing your data by using standard structured query
language (SQL) and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools? (Select the best answer.)

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon FarGate

Amazon Redshift

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Question 5 1 / 1 pts

In Amazon DynamoDB, an attribute is ______. (Select the best answer.)

a fundamental data element

a collection of items

a collection of attributes

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In Amazon DynamoDB, an attribute is a fundamental data element.

Question 6 1 / 1 pts

If you are developing an application that requires a database with extremely fast performance, fast
scalability, and flexibility in the database schema, which service should you consider? (Select the
best answer.)

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Redshift

If you are developing an application that requires a database with extremely fast
performance, fast scalability, and flexibility in the database schema, consider Amazon
DynamoDB.

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Question 7 0 / 1 pts

Which of the following use cases is appropriate for using Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS)? (Select the best answer.)

Massive read/write rates

Simple GET or PUT requests

Complex transactions

All of the above

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Question 8 0 / 1 pts

A company has an application, which consists of a .NET layer that connects to a MySQL database.
They want to move this application on to AWS and use AWS features such as high availability and
automated backups. Which of the following would be an ideal database for this use case? (Select
the best answer)

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Amazon Aurora

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift

Amazon DynamoDB

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Question 9 1 / 1 pts

True or false? Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your
database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time
recovery.

True

False

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Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up

Question 10 1 / 1 pts

What should you consider when choosing a database type? (Select the best answer.)

Data size

Data access period

Query frequency

Highly available

All of the above

When choosing a database type, you should consider all of these!

Quiz Score: 6 out of 10

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