Sending and receiving messages in AWS - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create an SQS queue named 'MyQueue'.

AWS

aws sqs create-queue --queue-name [1]

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AQueue1

BMyQueue

CTestQueue

DSampleQueue

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using a different queue name than 'MyQueue'.

Omitting the --queue-name option.

The command creates an SQS queue with the specified name. 'MyQueue' is the correct queue name here.

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medium

Complete the code to send a message with body 'HelloWorld' to the queue URL stored in QUEUE_URL.

AWS

aws sqs send-message --queue-url [1] --message-body HelloWorld

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A$QUEUE_URL

BMyQueueUrl

CQUEUE_URL

DqueueUrl

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Not using the $ sign to reference the variable.

Using the queue name instead of the queue URL.

The variable $QUEUE_URL holds the queue URL. It must be referenced with a $ to expand its value in the shell.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to receive one message from the queue URL stored in QUEUE_URL.

AWS

aws sqs receive-message --queue-url [1] --max-number-of-messages 1

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AqueueUrl

BQUEUE_URL

CMyQueueUrl

D$QUEUE_URL

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the variable name without $.

Using an incorrect variable name.

The queue URL variable must be referenced with a $ sign to expand its value in the shell.

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hard

Fill both blanks to set the visibility timeout to 30 seconds when receiving messages from the queue.

AWS

aws sqs receive-message --queue-url [1] --[2] 30

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A$QUEUE_URL

Bvisibility-timeout

Cmax-number-of-messages

Dwait-time-seconds

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the wrong option name for visibility timeout.

Not using $ to reference the queue URL variable.

The queue URL must be referenced with $QUEUE_URL. The option to set visibility timeout is --visibility-timeout.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to delete a message from the queue using its ReceiptHandle stored in RECEIPT_HANDLE.

AWS

aws sqs delete-message --queue-url [1] --receipt-handle [2] --region [3]

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A$QUEUE_URL

B$RECEIPT_HANDLE

Cus-east-1

Dus-west-2

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Not using $ to reference variables.

Using incorrect region names.

Use $QUEUE_URL and $RECEIPT_HANDLE to reference the variables. The region is set to 'us-east-1' as a common default.