Lambda with Kinesis Quiz

Quiz covering Data Ingestion

Questions in this quiz

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1. 1

   What is the primary purpose of using AWS Lambda as a consumer for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

2. 2

   When configuring a Lambda function to process a Kinesis stream, what determines the maximum number of concurrent Lambda executions?

3. 3

   If a Lambda function fails to process a batch of records from Kinesis, what is the default behavior regarding the failed records?

4. 4

   You want to improve the efficiency of your Lambda function processing Kinesis data. Which parameter should you adjust to reduce the number of Lambda invocations while processing the same amount of data?

5. 5

   You have a Kinesis stream where some specific records are malformed and cause your Lambda function to crash repeatedly, blocking the shard. What is the most robust architectural pattern to handle this without losing data?