15 Cloud Queues questions from the Message Queues bank, written for Indian campus drives and tech interviews. Every question has a verified answer and an AI-tutor explanation on placd.
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A.an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group
B.the period during which a fetched message is hidden from other consumers so it is not processed twice while in flight
C.a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
D.an Amazon offering with best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery that maximizes throughput
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2. Which term means: "an Amazon offering with best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery that maximizes throughput"?
Mid
A.SQS FIFO queue
B.SQS standard queue
C.Visibility timeout
D.SNS
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3. Which statement is correct?
Mid
A.SQS standard queue — an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group
B.SQS standard queue — an Amazon offering with best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery that maximizes throughput
C.SQS standard queue — a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
D.SQS standard queue — an Amazon publish-subscribe service that pushes notifications to many subscribers including queues and endpoints
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4. What is SQS FIFO queue?
Mid
A.an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group
B.a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
C.an Amazon offering with best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery that maximizes throughput
D.an Amazon publish-subscribe service that pushes notifications to many subscribers including queues and endpoints
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5. Which term means: "an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group"?
Mid
A.Visibility timeout
B.SQS FIFO queue
C.Long polling
D.SQS standard queue
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6. Which statement is correct?
Mid
A.SQS FIFO queue — an Amazon offering with best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery that maximizes throughput
B.SQS FIFO queue — an Amazon publish-subscribe service that pushes notifications to many subscribers including queues and endpoints
C.SQS FIFO queue — an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group
D.SQS FIFO queue — a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
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7. What is Visibility timeout?
Mid
A.a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
B.an Amazon publish-subscribe service that pushes notifications to many subscribers including queues and endpoints
C.an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group
D.the period during which a fetched message is hidden from other consumers so it is not processed twice while in flight
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8. Which term means: "the period during which a fetched message is hidden from other consumers so it is not processed twice while in flight"?
Mid
A.SQS FIFO queue
B.Visibility timeout
C.SNS
D.Long polling
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9. Which statement is correct?
Mid
A.Visibility timeout — an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group
B.Visibility timeout — an Amazon publish-subscribe service that pushes notifications to many subscribers including queues and endpoints
C.Visibility timeout — the period during which a fetched message is hidden from other consumers so it is not processed twice while in flight
D.Visibility timeout — a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
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10. What is SNS?
Senior
A.a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
B.an Amazon publish-subscribe service that pushes notifications to many subscribers including queues and endpoints
C.an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group
D.an Amazon offering with best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery that maximizes throughput
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11. Which term means: "an Amazon publish-subscribe service that pushes notifications to many subscribers including queues and endpoints"?
Senior
A.SNS
B.SQS FIFO queue
C.SQS standard queue
D.Visibility timeout
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12. Which statement is correct?
Senior
A.SNS — an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group
B.SNS — an Amazon publish-subscribe service that pushes notifications to many subscribers including queues and endpoints
C.SNS — a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
D.SNS — an Amazon offering with best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery that maximizes throughput
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13. What is Long polling?
Senior
A.a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
B.an Amazon offering with best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery that maximizes throughput
C.the period during which a fetched message is hidden from other consumers so it is not processed twice while in flight
D.an Amazon publish-subscribe service that pushes notifications to many subscribers including queues and endpoints
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14. Which term means: "a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs"?
Senior
A.SNS
B.Long polling
C.Visibility timeout
D.SQS standard queue
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15. Which statement is correct?
Senior
A.Long polling — an Amazon offering with best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery that maximizes throughput
B.Long polling — an Amazon offering that preserves strict ordering and provides exactly-once processing within a message group
C.Long polling — a retrieval mode that waits for messages to arrive before returning, cutting empty responses and request costs
D.Long polling — the period during which a fetched message is hidden from other consumers so it is not processed twice while in flight
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