Practice Monitoring Dynamodb (5.4.3) - Chapter 5: Deep Dive into Database Services

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Question 1.
What does the 'throttled requests' metric indicate?
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Think about capacity limits.
Question 2.
What does the term 'latency' refer to in DynamoDB?
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Consider the performance aspect.
3Question 3.
What primary purpose does CloudWatch serve in relation to DynamoDB?
- Scaling the database
- Monitoring performance metrics
- Securing user data
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Think about what monitoring involves.
4Question 4.
True or False: Throttled requests indicate that the performance of DynamoDB is excellent.
- True
- False
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Consider what happens when a service is overloaded.
Question 5.
You notice an increase in throttled requests on your DynamoDB instance during peak hours. What steps would you take to address this issue?
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Think about what causes throttling.
Question 6.
Your application is experiencing high latency. Discuss two strategies you could implement to reduce it.
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Consider how caching affects data retrieval times.

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