Amazon Databases Interview Question-Answer

Q.1 Which of the following is the Non-Relational DB service offered by AWS?

       A. MariaDB

       B. DynamoDB

       C. SQL Server

       D. Aurora

Ans : DynamoDB


Q.2 Which scaling methodology is opted when the load is increased with nearly equal number of reads and writes?

       A. Vertical Scaling

       B. Horizontal Scaling

       C. Any of the options

Ans : Vertical Scaling


Q.3 The default duration of the backup window in RDS is ________

       A. 90 minutes

       B. 45 minutes

       C. 30 minutes

       D. 1 hour

Ans : 30 minutes


Q.4 Which of the following services can have up to 15 read-replicas?

       A. SQL Server

       B. Redshift

       C. Aurora

       D. DynamoDB

Ans : Aurora


Q.5 For heavy gaming, read-intensive apps, IoT, and video hosting sites, ________ is preferred.

       A. DynamoDB

       B. Neptune

       C. Redshift

       D. MariaDB

Ans : DynamoDB


Q.6 Database backup in S3 is free until 100% of database size.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.7 DAX is an in-memory cache for DynamoDB.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.8 The local secondary index can be created only while creating the table.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.9 DynamoDB is backed by _________ type of disks, by default.

       A. HDD

       B. SDD

       C. Magnetic tapes

Ans : SDD


Q.10 ________ is/are used to trigger lambda functions for changes in DynamoDB.

       A. Index

       B. Query

       C. Streams

       D. Scan

Ans : Streams


Q.11 The availability SLA of Aurora DB is __________

       A. 0.99

       B. 0.9999

       C. 0.9996

       D. 0.9995

Ans : 0.9999


Q.12 By default, Aurora has ________ configured.

       A. Backup

       B. Multi-AZ

       C. Read-replica

       D. All the options

Ans : Multi-AZ


Q.13 Aurora can have upto ________ low-latency replicas in ________ AZs.

       A. 10, 3

       B. 10, 4

       C. 15, 4

       D. 15, 3

Ans : 15, 3


Q.14 The service used for migration of database to AWS is ______?

Ans : DMS


Q.15 Aurora is both MySQL and Postgre SQL compatible?

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.16 ElastiCache for memcached supports snapshots.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : False


Q.17 Only DNS is provided for the SQL server, and not IPV4.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.18 A multi-AZ DB will have a little downtime, and a single AZ will be unavailable during the scaling operation.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.19 Read replicas can be promoted to become databases on their own.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.20 Can Multi AZ deployment be used for improving performance of DB ?

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : False


Q.21 The maximum number of compute nodes a cluster can have is ____________.

       A. 128

       B. 64

       C. 80

       D. 160

Ans : 128


Q.22 Which of the following search queries uses indexes?

       A. Scan

       B. Query

       C. Both the options

Ans : Query


Q.23 The service used for migration of the database to AWS is ________

       A. Snowball

       B. DMS

       C. Snowmobile

       D. All the options

Ans : DMS


Q.24 Reserved DB instances can be purchased for ________ months, similar to EC2.

       A. 10 or 30

       B. 12 or 36

       C. 15 or 30

       D. All the options

Ans : 12 or 36


Q.25 Aurora can scale up to ___________.

       A. 128GB

       B. 64TB

       C. 128TB

       D. 64GB

Ans : 128TB


Q.26 Aurora is ________ times faster than the regular PostgreSQL database.

       A. 3

       B. 5

       C. 2

       D. 4

Ans : 3


Q.27 Aurora is ________ times faster than the regular MySQL database.

       A. 3

       B. 5

       C. 2

       D. 4

Ans : 5


Q.28 In columnar database, compression of data is easy.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


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