The AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) exam validates your skills in data engineering on AWS. It is suitable for those who want to demonstrate their ability to design and implement data solutions.
Explanation
AWS Lake Formation simplifies data lake creation and management; the others focus on different data services.
Q122
A data analyst needs to analyze log files stored in S3 and generate reports. What should you use?
AAWS Athena
BAWS Lambda
CAWS EMR
DAmazon RDS
Explanation
AWS Athena is an ideal serverless query service for log analysis in S3; the others are less suited for direct querying of S3 data.
Q123
You are configuring AWS IAM roles and want to ensure minimal privileges. What should you apply?
AAWS Managed Policies
BAWS IAM Best Practices
CResource-based Policies
DInline Policies
Explanation
AWS IAM Best Practices advocate for the principle of least privilege; managed and inline policies do not inherently ensure this principle.
Q124
Which AWS service is designed for real-time data stream processing?
AAmazon Kinesis
BAWS Glue
CAmazon EMR
DAmazon Athena
Explanation
Amazon Kinesis is specifically built for real-time data stream processing, while others serve different functions.
Q125
A company needs to run machine learning models at scale without managing infrastructure. Which service should they use?
AAWS SageMaker
BAmazon EC2
CAWS Lambda
DAmazon RDS
Explanation
AWS SageMaker provides infrastructure management for large-scale machine learning models, unlike EC2 or RDS.
Q126
You are configuring an S3 bucket. What happens if you set the bucket policy to deny all public access?
APublic read access is allowed
BOnly specific users can access
CAll access is blocked
DWrite access is denied only
Explanation
Denying public access blocks all public access patterns entirely to the bucket.
Q127
Which AWS service provides a fully managed NoSQL database?
ADynamoDB
BRDS
CRedshift
DS3
Explanation
DynamoDB is the only fully managed NoSQL database service among the options.
Q128
A company needs real-time analytics on data streamed from IoT devices. Which AWS service is best suited?
AKinesis
BAthena
CGlue
DCloudFormation
Explanation
Kinesis is designed specifically for processing real-time streaming data.
Q129
What happens when you enable versioning on an S3 bucket?
AOnly the latest file is kept.
BAll versions of files are stored.
CFiles are automatically encrypted.
DStorage cost decreases.
Explanation
Enabling versioning allows S3 to retain all versions of an object in the bucket.
Q130
What happens when an Auto Scaling group is configured with an instance cooldown period?
AInstances are terminated immediately.
BNo new instances are launched.
CScaling policies are ignored.
DPrevent scaling actions for a time.
Explanation
The cooldown period prevents further scaling actions for a specified time to allow previous changes to stabilize. Options A, B, and C misrepresent the function of cooldowns in Auto Scaling.