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.
Which service is best for deploying containerized applications?
AAWS Fargate
BAmazon EC2
CAWS Lambda
DAmazon RDS
Explanation
AWS Fargate simplifies deploying containers without managing servers; EC2 requires server management, Lambda is for serverless, and RDS is for databases.
Q452
A company needs real-time analytics on web traffic stored in S3. Which service should they use?
AAmazon EMR
BAmazon Athena
CAWS Glue
DAmazon Kinesis
Explanation
Amazon Kinesis provides real-time analytics; EMR is batch-oriented, Athena is not real-time, and Glue is for ETL tasks.
Q453
You are configuring IAM roles for an application. What happens if the role is assigned to an EC2 instance?
AAccess is granted immediately.
BInstance must be restarted.
CPermissions are cached indefinitely.
DNo access is provided.
Explanation
Access is granted immediately upon role assignment; no restart is needed, permissions are not cached indefinitely, and option D is incorrect.
Q454
Which service provides serverless computing capabilities?
AAWS Lambda
BAmazon EC2
CAmazon RDS
DAmazon S3
Explanation
AWS Lambda allows execution without managing servers, while EC2, RDS, and S3 are not serverless compute services.
Q455
A company needs to store sensitive data with strict access control and auditing. Which service is best suited?
AAmazon DynamoDB
BAWS RDS with encryption
CS3 with public access
DAmazon CloudFront
Explanation
AWS RDS with encryption offers strong access control and auditing features, while DynamoDB won't provide full relational capabilities, and S3 public access restricts security.
Q456
What happens when you assign more than one IAM role to an AWS resource?
AOnly the last role is applied
BMultiple roles work concurrently
CRoles assigned to users only
DResources will fail to operate
Explanation
AWS resources can only have one IAM role at a time; additional roles cannot be applied concurrently.
Q457
Which service allows for serverless machine learning model deployment?
AAWS Lambda
BAmazon SageMaker
CAWS Batch
DAmazon EC2
Explanation
Amazon SageMaker specifically supports serverless deployment of machine learning models, while AWS Lambda focuses on functions.
Q458
A company needs to replicate its S3 buckets across regions. What should they use?
AS3 Cross-Region Replication
BS3 Transfer Acceleration
CAWS DataSync
DAWS Snowball
Explanation
S3 Cross-Region Replication is designed for such use cases, while the others serve different purposes.
Q459
You are configuring IAM roles for EC2 instances. What happens if a role is not attached?
AInstances use default permissions
BAccess denied for all actions
CInstances can create roles
DRoles attach automatically on launch
Explanation
Without an attached IAM role, instances have no permissions, leading to access denial.
Q460
Which service provides automated server management in AWS?
AAWS Elastic Beanstalk
BAmazon S3
CAWS IAM
DAmazon RDS
Explanation
AWS Elastic Beanstalk automates server management, while others do not.