AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01)
Last Update Nov 30, 2025
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A financial services company stores financial data in Amazon Redshift. A data engineer wants to run real-time queries on the financial data to support a web-based trading application. The data engineer wants to run the queries from within the trading application.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is designing a serverless data processing workflow in AWS Step Functions that involves multiple steps. The processing workflow ingests data from an external API, transforms the data by using multiple AWS Lambda functions, and loads the transformed data into Amazon DynamoDB.
The company needs the workflow to perform specific steps based on the content of the incoming data.
Which Step Functions state type should the company use to meet this requirement?
A data engineer notices slow query performance on a highly partitioned table that is in Amazon Athena. The table contains daily data for the previous 5 years, partitioned by date. The data engineer wants to improve query performance and to automate partition management. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company maintains multiple extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows that ingest data from the company's operational databases into an Amazon S3 based data lake. The ETL workflows use AWS Glue and Amazon EMR to process data.
The company wants to improve the existing architecture to provide automated orchestration and to require minimal manual effort.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer has two datasets that contain sales information for multiple cities and states. One dataset is named reference, and the other dataset is named primary.
The data engineer needs a solution to determine whether a specific set of values in the city and state columns of the primary dataset exactly match the same specific values in the reference dataset. The data engineer wants to use Data Quality Definition Language (DQDL) rules in an AWS Glue Data Quality job.
Which rule will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon RDS to store transactional data. The company runs an RDS DB instance in a private subnet. A developer wrote an AWS Lambda function with default settings to insert, update, or delete data in the DB instance.
The developer needs to give the Lambda function the ability to connect to the DB instance privately without using the public internet.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)
A data engineer needs to run a data transformation job whenever a user adds a file to an Amazon S3 bucket. The job will run for less than 1 minute. The job must send the output through an email message to the data engineer. The data engineer expects users to add one file every hour of the day.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company wants to use Apache Spark jobs that run on an Amazon EMR cluster to process streaming data. The Spark jobs will transform and store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company will use Amazon Athena to perform analysis.
The company needs to optimize the data format for analytical queries.
Which solutions will meet these requirements with the SHORTEST query times? (Select TWO.)
A company needs to implement a new inventory management system that provides near real-time updates and visibility across all AWS Regions. The new solution must provide centralized access control over data access and permissions. The company has a separate inventory management team assigned to each Region. Each inventory management team needs to update inventory levels.
A data engineer must implement Amazon Redshift data sharing with write capabilities. The solution must follow the principle of least privilege.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company uses an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to store financial transaction data. The company migrates the transaction data from the on-premises database to AWS at the end of each month. The company has noticed that the cost to migrate data from the on-premises database to an Amazon RDS for SQL Server database has increased recently.
The company requires a cost-effective solution to migrate the data to AWS. The solution must cause minimal downtown for the applications that access the database.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?
A data engineer is optimizing query performance in Amazon Athena notebooks that use Apache Spark to analyze large datasets that are stored in Amazon S3. The data is partitioned. An AWS Glue crawler updates the partitions.
The data engineer wants to minimize the amount of data that is scanned to improve efficiency of Athena queries.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS Step Functions to orchestrate a data pipeline. The pipeline consists of Amazon EMR jobs that ingest data from data sources and store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The pipeline also includes EMR jobs that load the data to Amazon Redshift.
The company's cloud infrastructure team manually built a Step Functions state machine. The cloud infrastructure team launched an EMR cluster into a VPC to support the EMR jobs. However, the deployed Step Functions state machine is not able to run the EMR jobs.
Which combination of steps should the company take to identify the reason the Step Functions state machine is not able to run the EMR jobs? (Choose two.)
A company is setting up a data pipeline in AWS. The pipeline extracts client data from Amazon S3 buckets, performs quality checks, and transforms the data. The pipeline stores the processed data in a relational database. The company will use the processed data for future queries.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company needs to implement a data mesh architecture for trading, risk, and compliance teams. Each team has its own data but needs to share views. They have 1,000+ tables in 50 Glue databases. All teams use Athena and Redshift, and compliance requires full auditing and PII access control.
A company implements a data mesh that has a central governance account. The company needs to catalog all data in the governance account. The governance account uses AWS Lake Formation to centrally share data and grant access permissions.
The company has created a new data product that includes a group of Amazon Redshift Serverless tables. A data engineer needs to share the data product with a marketing team. The marketing team must have access to only a subset of columns. The data engineer needs to share the same data product with a compliance team. The compliance team must have access to a different subset of columns than the marketing team needs access to.
Which combination of steps should the data engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company saves customer data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company uses server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS) to encrypt the bucket. The dataset includes personally identifiable information (PII) such as social security numbers and account details.
Data that is tagged as PII must be masked before the company uses customer data for analysis. Some users must have secure access to the PII data during the preprocessing phase. The company needs a low-maintenance solution to mask and secure the PII data throughout the entire engineering pipeline.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A data engineer needs to use AWS Step Functions to design an orchestration workflow. The workflow must parallel process a large collection of data files and apply a specific transformation to each file.
Which Step Functions state should the data engineer use to meet these requirements?
A data engineer needs to create a new empty table in Amazon Athena that has the same schema as an existing table named old-table.
Which SQL statement should the data engineer use to meet this requirement?
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A manufacturing company collects sensor data from its factory floor to monitor and enhance operational efficiency. The company uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to publish the data that the sensors collect to a data stream. Then Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose writes the data to an Amazon S3 bucket.
The company needs to display a real-time view of operational efficiency on a large screen in the manufacturing facility.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LOWEST latency?
A company stores sales data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. The company needs to start a reporting process between 6:00 A.M. and 6:10 A.M. every Monday. The reporting process must generate a CSV file and store the file in an Amazon S3 bucket.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A company has a frontend ReactJS website that uses Amazon API Gateway to invoke REST APIs. The APIs perform the functionality of the website. A data engineer needs to write a Python script that can be occasionally invoked through API Gateway. The code must return results to API Gateway.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer is using an Apache Iceberg framework to build a data lake that contains 100 TB of data. The data engineer wants to run AWS Glue Apache Spark Jobs that use the Iceberg framework.
What combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company receives test results from testing facilities that are located around the world. The company stores the test results in millions of 1 KB JSON files in an Amazon S3 bucket. A data engineer needs to process the files, convert them into Apache Parquet format, and load them into Amazon Redshift tables. The data engineer uses AWS Glue to process the files, AWS Step Functions to orchestrate the processes, and Amazon EventBridge to schedule jobs.
The company recently added more testing facilities. The time required to process files is increasing. The data engineer must reduce the data processing time.
Which solution will MOST reduce the data processing time?
A company needs to set up a data catalog and metadata management for data sources that run in the AWS Cloud. The company will use the data catalog to maintain the metadata of all the objects that are in a set of data stores. The data stores include structured sources such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift. The data stores also include semistructured sources such as JSON files and .xml files that are stored in Amazon S3.
The company needs a solution that will update the data catalog on a regular basis. The solution also must detect changes to the source metadata.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has five offices in different AWS Regions. Each office has its own human resources (HR) department that uses a unique IAM role. The company stores employee records in a data lake that is based on Amazon S3 storage.
A data engineering team needs to limit access to the records. Each HR department should be able to access records for only employees who are within the HR department's Region.
Which combination of steps should the data engineering team take to meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)
A company receives marketing campaign data from a vendor. The company ingests the data into an Amazon S3 bucket every 40 to 60 minutes. The data is in CSV format. File sizes are between 100 KB and 300 KB.
A data engineer needs to set-up an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline to upload the content of each file to Amazon Redshift.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to analyze sales records that the company stores in a MySQL database. The company wants to correlate the records with sales opportunities identified by Salesforce.
The company receives 2 GB erf sales records every day. The company has 100 GB of identified sales opportunities. A data engineer needs to develop a process that will analyze and correlate sales records and sales opportunities. The process must run once each night.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company uses Amazon DataZone as a data governance and business catalog solution. The company stores data in an Amazon S3 data lake. The company uses AWS Glue with an AWS Glue Data Catalog.
A data engineer needs to publish AWS Glue Data Quality scores to the Amazon DataZone portal.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company builds a new data pipeline to process data for business intelligence reports. Users have noticed that data is missing from the reports.
A data engineer needs to add a data quality check for columns that contain null values and for referential integrity at a stage before the data is added to storage.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company stores CSV files in an Amazon S3 bucket. A data engineer needs to process the data in the CSV files and store the processed data in a new S3 bucket.
The process needs to rename a column, remove specific columns, ignore the second row of each file, create a new column based on the values of the first row of the data, and filter the results by a numeric value of a column.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
A company maintains an Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster that the company uses for extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations to support critical analysis tasks. A sales team within the company maintains a Redshift cluster that the sales team uses for business intelligence (BI) tasks.
The sales team recently requested access to the data that is in the ETL Redshift cluster so the team can perform weekly summary analysis tasks. The sales team needs to join data from the ETL cluster with data that is in the sales team's BI cluster.
The company needs a solution that will share the ETL cluster data with the sales team without interrupting the critical analysis tasks. The solution must minimize usage of the computing resources of the ETL cluster.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company loads transaction data for each day into Amazon Redshift tables at the end of each day. The company wants to have the ability to track which tables have been loaded and which tables still need to be loaded.
A data engineer wants to store the load statuses of Redshift tables in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The data engineer creates an AWS Lambda function to publish the details of the load statuses to DynamoDB.
How should the data engineer invoke the Lambda function to write load statuses to the DynamoDB table?
A manufacturing company uses AWS Glue jobs to process IoT sensor data to generate predictive maintenance models. A data engineer needs to implement automated data quality checks to identify temperature readings that are outside the expected range of -50°C to 150°C. The data quality checks must also identify records that are missing timestamp values.
The data engineer needs a solution that requires minimal coding and can automatically flag the specified issues.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has used an Amazon Redshift table that is named Orders for 6 months. The company performs weekly updates and deletes on the table. The table has an interleaved sort key on a column that contains AWS Regions.
The company wants to reclaim disk space so that the company will not run out of storage space. The company also wants to analyze the sort key column.
Which Amazon Redshift command will meet these requirements?
A data engineer wants to orchestrate a set of extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs that run on AWS. The ETL jobs contain tasks that must run Apache Spark jobs on Amazon EMR, make API calls to Salesforce, and load data into Amazon Redshift.
The ETL jobs need to handle failures and retries automatically. The data engineer needs to use Python to orchestrate the jobs.
Which service will meet these requirements?
A retail company is expanding its operations globally. The company needs to use Amazon QuickSight to accurately calculate currency exchange rates for financial reports. The company has an existing dashboard that includes a visual that is based on an analysis of a dataset that contains global currency values and exchange rates.
A data engineer needs to ensure that exchange rates are calculated with a precision of four decimal places. The calculations must be precomputed. The data engineer must materialize results in QuickSight super-fast, parallel, in-memory calculation engine (SPICE).
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A healthcare company uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to stream real-time health data from wearable devices, hospital equipment, and patient records.
A data engineer needs to find a solution to process the streaming data. The data engineer needs to store the data in an Amazon Redshift Serverless warehouse. The solution must support near real-time analytics of the streaming data and the previous day's data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
The company stores a large volume of customer records in Amazon S3. To comply with regulations, the company must be able to access new customer records immediately for the first 30 days after the records are created. The company accesses records that are older than 30 days infrequently.
The company needs to cost-optimize its Amazon S3 storage.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has a production AWS account that runs company workloads. The company's security team created a security AWS account to store and analyze security logs from the production AWS account. The security logs in the production AWS account are stored in Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
The company needs to use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to deliver the security logs to the security AWS account.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs a solution to manage costs for an existing Amazon DynamoDB table. The company also needs to control the size of the table. The solution must not disrupt any ongoing read or write operations. The company wants to use a solution that automatically deletes data from the table after 1 month.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST ongoing maintenance?
A data engineer needs to maintain a central metadata repository that users access through Amazon EMR and Amazon Athena queries. The repository needs to provide the schema and properties of many tables. Some of the metadata is stored in Apache Hive. The data engineer needs to import the metadata from Hive into the central metadata repository.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
A retail company uses an Amazon Redshift data warehouse and an Amazon S3 bucket. The company ingests retail order data into the S3 bucket every day.
The company stores all order data at a single path within the S3 bucket. The data has more than 100 columns. The company ingests the order data from a third-party application that generates more than 30 files in CSV format every day. Each CSV file is between 50 and 70 MB in size.
The company uses Amazon Redshift Spectrum to run queries that select sets of columns. Users aggregate metrics based on daily orders. Recently, users have reported that the performance of the queries has degraded. A data engineer must resolve the performance issues for the queries.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement with LEAST developmental effort? (Select TWO.)
A company uses Amazon Redshift as its data warehouse service. A data engineer needs to design a physical data model.
The data engineer encounters a de-normalized table that is growing in size. The table does not have a suitable column to use as the distribution key.
Which distribution style should the data engineer use to meet these requirements with the LEAST maintenance overhead?
A company stores data from an application in an Amazon DynamoDB table that operates in provisioned capacity mode. The workloads of the application have predictable throughput load on a regular schedule. Every Monday, there is an immediate increase in activity early in the morning. The application has very low usage during weekends.
The company must ensure that the application performs consistently during peak usage times.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
A data engineer is configuring Amazon SageMaker Studio to use AWS Glue interactive sessions to prepare data for machine learning (ML) models.
The data engineer receives an access denied error when the data engineer tries to prepare the data by using SageMaker Studio.
Which change should the engineer make to gain access to SageMaker Studio?
A media company uses software as a service (SaaS) applications to gather data by using third-party tools. The company needs to store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company will use Amazon Redshift to perform analytics based on the data.
Which AWS service or feature will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer must build an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline to process and load data from 10 source systems into 10 tables that are in an Amazon Redshift database. All the source systems generate .csv, JSON, or Apache Parquet files every 15 minutes. The source systems all deliver files into one Amazon S3 bucket. The file sizes range from 10 MB to 20 GB. The ETL pipeline must function correctly despite changes to the data schema.
Which data pipeline solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company wants to ingest streaming data into an Amazon Redshift data warehouse from an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) cluster. A data engineer needs to develop a solution that provides low data access time and that optimizes storage costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company receives call logs as Amazon S3 objects that contain sensitive customer information. The company must protect the S3 objects by using encryption. The company must also use encryption keys that only specific employees can access.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
A data engineer is building a data pipeline. A large data file is uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket once each day at unpredictable times. An AWS Glue workflow uses hundreds of workers to process the file and load the data into Amazon Redshift. The company wants to process the file as quickly as possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A data engineer needs to build an extract, transform, and load (ETL) job. The ETL job will process daily incoming .csv files that users upload to an Amazon S3 bucket. The size of each S3 object is less than 100 MB.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is planning to migrate on-premises Apache Hadoop clusters to Amazon EMR. The company also needs to migrate a data catalog into a persistent storage solution.
The company currently stores the data catalog in an on-premises Apache Hive metastore on the Hadoop clusters. The company requires a serverless solution to migrate the data catalog.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is migrating a legacy application to an Amazon S3 based data lake. A data engineer reviewed data that is associated with the legacy application. The data engineer found that the legacy data contained some duplicate information.
The data engineer must identify and remove duplicate information from the legacy application data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has an application that uses a microservice architecture. The company hosts the application on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) cluster.
The company wants to set up a robust monitoring system for the application. The company needs to analyze the logs from the EKS cluster and the application. The company needs to correlate the cluster's logs with the application's traces to identify points of failure in the whole application request flow.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort? (Select TWO.)
A company stores sensitive data in an Amazon Redshift table. The company needs to give specific users the ability to access the sensitive data. The company must not create duplication in the data.
Customer support users must be able to see the last four characters of the sensitive data. Audit users must be able to see the full value of the sensitive data. No other users can have the ability to access the sensitive information.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A data engineer is building an automated extract, transform, and load (ETL) ingestion pipeline by using AWS Glue. The pipeline ingests compressed files that are in an Amazon S3 bucket. The ingestion pipeline must support incremental data processing.
Which AWS Glue feature should the data engineer use to meet this requirement?
A company receives .csv files that contain physical address data. The data is in columns that have the following names: Door_No, Street_Name, City, and Zip_Code. The company wants to create a single column to store these values in the following format:
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST coding effort?
A company wants to migrate a data warehouse from Teradata to Amazon Redshift. Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?
A company stores customer records in Amazon S3. The company must not delete or modify the customer record data for 7 years after each record is created. The root user also must not have the ability to delete or modify the data.
A data engineer wants to use S3 Object Lock to secure the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company maintains a data warehouse in an on-premises Oracle database. The company wants to build a data lake on AWS. The company wants to load data warehouse tables into Amazon S3 and synchronize the tables with incremental data that arrives from the data warehouse every day.
Each table has a column that contains monotonically increasing values. The size of each table is less than 50 GB. The data warehouse tables are refreshed every night between 1 AM and 2 AM. A business intelligence team queries the tables between 10 AM and 8 PM every day.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A data engineer needs to create an empty copy of an existing table in Amazon Athena to perform data processing tasks. The existing table in Athena contains 1,000 rows.
Which query will meet this requirement?
A company stores employee data in Amazon Redshift A table named Employee uses columns named Region ID, Department ID, and Role ID as a compound sort key. Which queries will MOST increase the speed of a query by using a compound sort key of the table? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to combine data from multiple software as a service (SaaS) applications for analysis.
A data engineering team needs to use Amazon QuickSight to perform the analysis and build dashboards. A data engineer needs to extract the data from the SaaS applications and make the data available for QuickSight queries.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company generates reports from 30 tables in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse. The data source is an operational Amazon Aurora MySQL database that contains 100 tables. Currently, the company refreshes all data from Aurora to Redshift every hour, which causes delays in report generation.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A financial company wants to use Amazon Athena to run on-demand SQL queries on a petabyte-scale dataset to support a business intelligence (BI) application. An AWS Glue job that runs during non-business hours updates the dataset once every day. The BI application has a standard data refresh frequency of 1 hour to comply with company policies.
A data engineer wants to cost optimize the company's use of Amazon Athena without adding any additional infrastructure costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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