Kinesis Data Streams Overview Quiz

Quiz covering Data Ingestion

Questions in this quiz

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1. 1

   What is the primary purpose of a Kinesis Data Stream shard?

2. 2

   If your application is experiencing a 'ProvisionedThroughputExceededException' while writing to a Kinesis stream, what is the most appropriate action?

3. 3

   How does Kinesis Data Streams ensure that data records with the same Partition Key are processed in the correct order?

4. 4

   A developer needs to retain data in a Kinesis stream for 48 hours for multiple downstream applications to process it. What is the default and maximum retention period for data in Kinesis Data Streams?

5. 5

   In a scenario where you are using a Kinesis Client Library (KCL) to consume data, what happens if the number of active KCL instances exceeds the number of shards in the stream?