AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate
AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate
AWS-Certified-Data-Engineer-Associate_Exam-Guide.pdf
Date - Feb-March 2024
Topics
- Implement data pipelines and to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cost and performance issues in accordance with best practices.
- Ingest and transform data, and orchestrate data pipelines while applying programming concepts.
- Choose an optimal data store, design data models, catalog data schemas, and manage data lifecycles.
- Operationalize, maintain, and monitor data pipelines. Analyze data and ensure data quality.
- Implement appropriate authentication, authorization, data encryption, privacy, and governance. Enable logging.
Services
- Streaming and transforming data with Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
- Queuing messages with Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- Orchestrating data pipelines with Amazon AppFlow, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
- Transitioning from small to big data with the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), AWS DataSync, Snow Family, Transfer Family, and more
- Storing massive data lakes with the Simple Storage Service (S3) and managing data lifecycles
- Optimizing transactional queries with DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Keyspaces, and MemoryDB
- Tying your big data systems together with AWS Lambda
- Making unstructured data query-able with AWS Glue, Glue DataBrew, and Lake Formation
- Processing data at unlimited scale with Elastic MapReduce, including Apache Spark
- Applying advanced machine learning algorithms at scale with Amazon SageMaker
- Searching and analyzing petabyte-scale data with Amazon Opensearch (formerly Elasticsearch) Service
- Querying S3 data lakes with Amazon Athena
- Hosting massive-scale data warehouses with Redshift and Redshift Spectrum
- Integrating smaller data with your big data, using the Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Keeping your data secure with encryption, KMS, Macie, Secrets Manager, IAM, and more
- Managing and governing your systems with CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, AWS Config, and more
Bifurcation
- Domain 1: Data Ingestion and Transformation (34% of scored content)
- Domain 2: Data Store Management (26% of scored content)
- Domain 3: Data Operations and Support (22% of scored content)
- Domain 4: Data Security and Governance (18% of scored content)
AWS Services
Analytics
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon EMR
- AWS Glue
- AWS Glue DataBrew
- AWS Lake Formation
- Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
- Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)
- Amazon OpenSearch Service
- Amazon QuickSight
Course
- AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate 2024 - Hands On! | Udemy
- Course Slides
- AWS Certified Data Engineer - Hands On! Course Materials - Sundog Education with Frank Kane
- Free AWS Practice Exam Questions
Links
- Building Batch Data Analytics Solutions on AWS
- Exam Prep Official Practice Question Set: AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01 - English) | Self-paced digital training on AWS - AWS Skill Builder
- AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate DEA-C01 | Exam Questions | Exam Dumps | AWS Data Engineer - YouTube
- Self-paced digital training on AWS - AWS Skill Builder