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01: AWS Q&As on VPC, Subnets, Availability Zones, VPN, Route tables, NACLs & Security Groups

The above diagram addresses many of the questions that follow. Q1. What is a VPC in AWS? A1. A virtual private cloud (VPC) is a virtual network dedicated to your…



02: AWS Identity & Access Management (i.e. IAM) interview Q&As

Q1. What is IAM? A1. IAM stands for Identity & Access Management. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS…



12 Amazon Redshift interview Q&As

Q1. What is Amazon Redshift? A1. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data…



15 EC2 instances interview Q&As

Q01. What is an Amazon EC2 Service ? A01. EC2 stands for Elastic Cloud Computing that provides resizable (i.e. scalable) computing capacity in the cloud. You can use Amazon EC2…



15+ AWS Services overview interview Q&As

Below questions are based on the above diagram, and extends AWS Q&As on VPC, Subnets, Availability Zones, VPN, Route tables, NACLs & Security Groups: Q1. What is the difference between…



18 Amazon S3 interview Q&As

Q01. What is Amazon S3 storage? A01. S3 stands for Simple Storage Service, which provides storage through web service interfaces. Unlike the other storage systems like Unix file system, HDFS…



18: Q121 – Q124 Choosing between HDFS & AWS S3 for BigData projects interview Q&As

More and more organisations are adopting the policy of “Cloud first architecture” where Cloud based storages like AWS S3 plays a major role. A data lake is a storage repository…



21: Q138 – Q142 AWS data lakes overview Interview Q&As

Q138. What are the basic considerations when building a data lake on an AWS platform?
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1. Ingestion into S3 (i.e. Simple Storage Service) from different source systems. E.g. csv/xml/json files extracted from source systems, streamed data from source systems via message queues/topics, etc.

2. Catalog & Search ingested data by building a metadata.…



5 Amazon EMR Vs. Cloudera interview Q&As

Q1. What is Amazon EMR? A1. EMR stands for Elastic Map Reduce, which is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) tool for big data processing and analysis. Amazon EMR offers elastic,…



Amazon Athena, Redshift, Redshift spectrum & Presto Q&As

Q1. What is AWS Athena? What are its capabilities? A1. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyse data in Amazon S3 buckets using standard…



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