Amazon ElastiCache and RDS Cache Invalidation Strategy Quiz

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What is the maximum throughput for reads when using the Bursting Throughput Mode in Amazon EFS?

100 MiB/s

Which Performance Mode in Amazon EFS is suitable for latency-sensitive use cases like web servers and CMS?

General Purpose

In Amazon EFS, what is the purpose of the Performance Mode 'Max I/O'?

High latency and throughput for big data processing

What is the purpose of the Storage Tier 'Infrequent access (EFS-IA)' in Amazon EFS?

For frequently accessed files at a lower price

Which Throughput Mode in Amazon EFS allows you to set your own throughput regardless of storage size?

Provisioned

In Amazon EFS, which Performance Mode automatically scales throughput based on your workloads?

Elastic

What is one of the hard things in Computer Science, according to the text?

Cache invalidation

Which ElastiCache solution supports Data Durability using AOF persistence?

ElastiCache for Redis

What type of authentication does Memcached support?

SASL-based authentication

Which ElastiCache solution is suitable for partitioning data through sharding?

Memcached

Which technology is responsible for translating human-friendly hostnames into machine IP addresses?

DNS

Which ElastiCache solution supports Sets and Sorted Sets?

Redis

What does Redis AUTH provide as an extra level of security?

"password/token"

Which feature ensures no stale data in a cache when adding or updating data?

"Write Through"

Which ElastiCache solution supports lazy loading that can result in stale data in the cache?

"Lazy Loading"

'Gaming Leaderboards' are computationally complex and rely on which ElastiCache feature for real-time ranking?

"Sorted Sets"

What protocol is used when creating a new Aurora DB Cluster from an existing one?

Copy-on-write protocol

In Amazon RDS and Aurora, what is the main purpose of using IAM roles for authentication?

Connecting to the database instead of using username/password

What is the primary role of the fully managed database proxy for RDS?

Reducing stress on database resources and minimizing open connections

Which service is analogous to ElastiCache for managing Redis or Memcached?

Amazon RDS Proxy

What kind of encryption must be defined at launch time for Database master & replicas in AWS KMS?

At-rest encryption

What is a benefit of creating a new Aurora DB Cluster from an existing one?

Involves faster copy-on-write operations

In Amazon RDS and Aurora, how are credentials securely stored according to best practices?

Encrypted using AWS Secrets Manager

What is the primary purpose of an ElastiCache in-memory database?

Reducing load on databases for read intensive workloads

What option should be undertaken if one needs to encrypt an unencrypted Amazon RDS database?

Go through a DB snapshot & restore process as encrypted

Test your knowledge on how to relieve load in Amazon RDS Cache and implement an invalidation strategy to ensure only the most current data is utilized. This quiz covers concepts such as cache hits, cache misses, reading from the database, writing to cache, and the overall architecture of ElastiCache solutions.

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