Tick-Bank | Kinesis Firehose Default Configuration Parameters

Kinesis Firehose Default Configuration Parameters

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Founded in 2008, Tick-Bank is a private online retailer of both physical and digital products.

The company has more than six-million clients worldwide.

Tick-Bank aims to serve as a connection between digital content makers and affiliate dealers, who promote them to clients.

Tick-Bank's technology aids in payments, tax calculations, and a variety of customer service tasks.

Tick-Bank assists in building perceptibility and revenue-making opportunities for entrepreneurs. Tick-Bank runs multiple Java-based web applications that run on windows-based EC2 machines in AWS, managed by internal IT Java team, to serve various business functions. Tick-Bank is looking to enable website traffic analytics, thereby understanding user navigational behavior, preferences, and other click-related info. Tick-Bank uses event-based streaming based on Kinesis Stream, to address data integration, and uses producer library to integrate events.

Also, Tick-Bank is looking at data transformations that will be processed using Kinesis Firehose.

The enterprise architecture team is trying to understand the default configuration parameters of kinesis firehose.

Which of the followings is the correct choice? (Select Three)

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A. B. C. D. E. F.

Correct Answers: A, C, E.

The maximum size of kinesis firehose delivery stream record is 1000 KB, while The buffer size of the Kinesis Firehose stream is between 1-128 MB, and buffer interval can be 60-900 seconds.

Also, Kinesis Firehose supports GZIP, Snappy, Zip or no data compression.

For more information, please check the URL below:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/firehose/latest/dev/create-configure.html

Tick-Bank is looking to enable website traffic analytics to understand user navigational behavior, preferences, and other click-related info. To achieve this, Tick-Bank uses event-based streaming based on Kinesis Stream and producer library to integrate events. Additionally, Tick-Bank is planning to use Kinesis Firehose for data transformations.

Kinesis Firehose is a fully managed service that delivers real-time streaming data to destinations such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service. When configuring Kinesis Firehose, it is essential to understand the default configuration parameters.

Let's evaluate the given options:

A. The maximum size of kinesis firehose delivery stream record size is 1000 KB This statement is incorrect. The maximum size of a single Kinesis Firehose record is 1,000 KB, which means the data size of a single record cannot exceed 1,000 KB.

B. The maximum size of kinesis firehose delivery stream record size is 10 MB This statement is incorrect. As mentioned earlier, the maximum size of a single Kinesis Firehose record is 1,000 KB.

C. The buffer size of Kinesis Firehose stream is between 1-128 MB, buffer interval can be 60-900 seconds This statement is partially correct. Kinesis Firehose buffer size can vary between 1 MB to 100 MB. However, the buffer interval can range from 60 to 900 seconds.

D. The buffer size of Kinesis Firehose stream is between 1-1024 MB, buffer interval can be 5-900 seconds This statement is incorrect. Kinesis Firehose buffer size can vary between 1 MB to 100 MB. The buffer interval can range from 60 to 900 seconds.

E. Kinesis Firehose supports only GZIP, Snappy, Zip data compression, and no data compression This statement is incorrect. Kinesis Firehose supports GZIP, Snappy, and Zip data compression.

F. Kinesis Firehose supports only GZIP, Snappy, and Zip data compression. Data compression is enabled by default. This statement is partially correct. Kinesis Firehose supports GZIP, Snappy, and Zip data compression. By default, Kinesis Firehose does not compress data. However, you can enable data compression while configuring Kinesis Firehose.

In conclusion, the correct statements are:

  • The maximum size of a single Kinesis Firehose record is 1,000 KB.
  • Kinesis Firehose buffer size can vary between 1 MB to 100 MB. The buffer interval can range from 60 to 900 seconds.
  • Kinesis Firehose supports GZIP, Snappy, and Zip data compression. By default, Kinesis Firehose does not compress data, but compression can be enabled while configuring Kinesis Firehose.