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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, KMSMacie, Secrets ManagerIAM, 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