AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional SAP-C01 – Question234

In Amazon Redshift, how many slices does a dw2.8xlarge node have?

A. 16
B. 8
C. 32
D. 2

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation: The disk storage for a compute node in Amazon Redshift is divided into a number of slices, equal to the number of processor cores on the node. For example, each DW1.XL compute node has two slices, and each DW2.8XL compute node has 32 slices.
Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/t_Distributing_data.html