Practice Performance Optimization for DynamoDB - 5.4.4 | Chapter 5: Deep Dive into Database Services | AWS Basic
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Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What is a partition key in DynamoDB?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how items are retrieved in a table.

Question 2

Easy

What does Auto Scaling in DynamoDB do?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider high and low traffic scenarios.

Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation

Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What action does Auto Scaling perform in DynamoDB?

  • Manually adjusts capacity
  • Automatically scales capacity
  • No action taken

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how the database can react to increased user load.

Question 2

True or False: A poorly designed partition key can lead to hotspots.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what happens in a traffic jam scenario.

Solve and get performance evaluation

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

You are designing a hospital patient management system using DynamoDB. Discuss how you would choose your partition keys and why, considering patient load and access patterns.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how records should be grouped together for efficiency.

Question 2

Analyze a case where a company experiences throttling during peak hours. They are currently using parallel scans extensively. What advice would you give to improve their situation?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about balancing load to avoid saturation.

Challenge and get performance evaluation