Quiz: Global Infrastructure & Services

1. An application must remain available even if an entire AWS data center loses power. Which architecture choice provides this protection?

2. A European company must store customer data within the European Union to comply with GDPR. Which AWS concept helps them meet this requirement?

3. A media company wants to cache video content close to users around the world for lower latency. Which AWS infrastructure component enables this?

4. Which AWS service routes user traffic over the AWS global backbone to provide consistent low-latency connectivity?

5. What is the primary difference between Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator?

6. A company needs to send a single order confirmation to both an email address and a downstream order-processing service. Which AWS service should publish the event?

7. A producer generates tasks faster than a consumer can process them. The consumer should pull tasks at its own pace, and no task should be lost if the consumer is temporarily down. Which service should be placed between them?

8. A developer builds a workflow that calls three Lambda functions sequentially, then runs two more in parallel, and sends an error notification if any step fails. Which service manages this workflow?

9. A financial analytics company must ingest real-time transaction data continuously and load it into Amazon Redshift for analysis. Which service provides the easiest managed loading path?

10. A business team wants interactive dashboards with ML-powered anomaly detection, using data from Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift. Which service should they use?

11. A company needs to build custom real-time applications that process streaming data with sub-second latency. Which Kinesis service gives them full control over stream processing logic?

12. A company wants to deliver every incoming message to both an SQS queue and a Lambda function at the same time. Which pattern enables this?

13. A banking application processes transactions that must be delivered exactly once and in the exact order they were received. Which SQS queue type should they use?

14. A city government needs to replicate critical application data between two far-apart Regions to survive a regional natural disaster. Which approach best provides this protection?