AWS Certified Data Analytics - SpecialtyPreview

A financial services company needs to aggregate daily stock trade data from the exchanges into a data store. The company requires that data be streamed directly into the data store, but also occasionally allows data to be modified using SQL. The solution should integrate complex, analytic queries running with minimal latency. The solution must provide a business intelligence dashboard that enables viewing of the top contributors to anomalies in stock prices.
Which solution meets the company's requirements?

An insurance company has raw data in JSON format that is sent without a predefined schedule through an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to an
Amazon S3 bucket. An AWS Glue crawler is scheduled to run every 8 hours to update the schema in the data catalog of the tables stored in the S3 bucket. Data analysts analyze the data using Apache Spark SQL on Amazon EMR set up with AWS Glue Data Catalog as the metastore. Data analysts say that, occasionally, the data they receive is stale. A data engineer needs to provide access to the most up-to-date data.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A central government organization is collecting events from various internal applications using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK).
The organization has configured a separate Kafka topic for each application to separate the data. For security reasons, the Kafka cluster has been configured to only allow TLS encrypted data and it encrypts the data at rest.
A recent application update showed that one of the applications was configured incorrectly, resulting in writing data to a Kafka topic that belongs to another application. This resulted in multiple errors in the analytics pipeline as data from different applications appeared on the same topic. After this incident, the organization wants to prevent applications from writing to a topic different than the one they should write to.
Which solution meets these requirements with the least amount of effort?

A company wants to collect and process events data from different departments in near-real time. Before storing the data in Amazon S3, the company needs to clean the data by standardizing the format of the address and timestamp columns. The data varies in size based on the overall load at each particular point in time. A single data record can be 100 KB-10 MB.
How should a data analytics specialist design the solution for data ingestion?

An operations team notices that a few AWS Glue jobs for a given ETL application are failing. The AWS Glue jobs read a large number of small JSON files from an
Amazon S3 bucket and write the data to a different S3 bucket in Apache Parquet format with no major transformations. Upon initial investigation, a data engineer notices the following error message in the History tab on the AWS Glue console: Command Failed with Exit Code 1.
Upon further investigation, the data engineer notices that the driver memory profile of the failed jobs crosses the safe threshold of 50% usage quickly and reaches
90`"95% soon after. The average memory usage across all executors continues to be less than 4%.
The data engineer also notices the following error while examining the related Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

What should the data engineer do to solve the failure in the MOST cost-effective way?

A transport company wants to track vehicular movements by capturing geolocation records. The records are 10 B in size and up to 10,000 records are captured each second. Data transmission delays of a few minutes are acceptable, considering unreliable network conditions. The transport company decided to use
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to ingest the data. The company is looking for a reliable mechanism to send data to Kinesis Data Streams while maximizing the throughput efficiency of the Kinesis shards.
Which solution will meet the company's requirements?

A retail company has 15 stores across 6 cities in the United States. Once a month, the sales team requests a visualization in Amazon QuickSight that provides the ability to easily identify revenue trends across cities and stores. The visualization also helps identify outliers that need to be examined with further analysis.
Which visual type in QuickSight meets the sales team's requirements?

A marketing company has data in Salesforce, MySQL, and Amazon S3. The company wants to use data from these three locations and create mobile dashboards for its users. The company is unsure how it should create the dashboards and needs a solution with the least possible customization and coding.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A company uses Amazon Redshift for its data warehousing needs. ETL jobs run every night to load data, apply business rules, and create aggregate tables for reporting. The company's data analysis, data science, and business intelligence teams use the data warehouse during regular business hours. The workload management is set to auto, and separate queues exist for each team with the priority set to NORMAL.
Recently, a sudden spike of read queries from the data analysis team has occurred at least twice daily, and queries wait in line for cluster resources. The company needs a solution that enables the data analysis team to avoid query queuing without impacting latency and the query times of other teams.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A company owns facilities with IoT devices installed across the world. The company is using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to stream data from the devices to
Amazon S3. The company's operations team wants to get insights from the IoT data to monitor data quality at ingestion. The insights need to be derived in near- real time, and the output must be logged to Amazon DynamoDB for further analysis.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A company has a data lake on AWS that ingests sources of data from multiple business units and uses Amazon Athena for queries. The storage layer is Amazon
S3 using the AWS Glue Data Catalog. The company wants to make the data available to its data scientists and business analysts. However, the company first needs to manage data access for Athena based on user roles and responsibilities.
What should the company do to apply these access controls with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company has an encrypted Amazon Redshift cluster. The company recently enabled Amazon Redshift audit logs and needs to ensure that the audit logs are also encrypted at rest. The logs are retained for 1 year. The auditor queries the logs once a month.
What is the MOST cost-effective way to meet these requirements?

A company that produces network devices has millions of users. Data is collected from the devices on an hourly basis and stored in an Amazon S3 data lake.
The company runs analyses on the last 24 hours of data flow logs for abnormality detection and to troubleshoot and resolve user issues. The company also analyzes historical logs dating back 2 years to discover patterns and look for improvement opportunities.
The data flow logs contain many metrics, such as date, timestamp, source IP, and target IP. There are about 10 billion events every day.
How should this data be stored for optimal performance?

A data analytics specialist is setting up workload management in manual mode for an Amazon Redshift environment. The data analytics specialist is defining query monitoring rules to manage system performance and user experience of an Amazon Redshift cluster.
Which elements must each query monitoring rule include?

A market data company aggregates external data sources to create a detailed view of product consumption in different countries. The company wants to sell this data to external parties through a subscription. To achieve this goal, the company needs to make its data securely available to external parties who are also AWS users.
What should the company do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company has a marketing department and a finance department. The departments are storing data in Amazon S3 in their own AWS accounts in AWS
Organizations. Both departments use AWS Lake Formation to catalog and secure their data. The departments have some databases and tables that share common names.
The marketing department needs to securely access some tables from the finance department.
Which two steps are required for this process? (Choose two.)

A human resources company maintains a 10-node Amazon Redshift cluster to run analytics queries on the company's data. The Amazon Redshift cluster contains a product table and a transactions table, and both tables have a product_sku column. The tables are over 100 GB in size. The majority of queries run on both tables.
Which distribution style should the company use for the two tables to achieve optimal query performance?

A company receives data from its vendor in JSON format with a timestamp in the file name. The vendor uploads the data to an Amazon S3 bucket, and the data is registered into the company's data lake for analysis and reporting. The company has configured an S3 Lifecycle policy to archive all files to S3 Glacier after 5 days.
The company wants to ensure that its AWS Glue crawler catalogs data only from S3 Standard storage and ignores the archived files. A data analytics specialist must implement a solution to achieve this goal without changing the current S3 bucket configuration.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A company analyzes historical data and needs to query data that is stored in Amazon S3. New data is generated daily as .csv files that are stored in Amazon S3.
The company's analysts are using Amazon Athena to perform SQL queries against a recent subset of the overall data. The amount of data that is ingested into
Amazon S3 has increased substantially over time, and the query latency also has increased.
Which solutions could the company implement to improve query performance? (Choose two.)

A company is sending historical datasets to Amazon S3 for storage. A data engineer at the company wants to make these datasets available for analysis using
Amazon Athena. The engineer also wants to encrypt the Athena query results in an S3 results location by using AWS solutions for encryption. The requirements for encrypting the query results are as follows:
✑ Use custom keys for encryption of the primary dataset query results.
✑ Use generic encryption for all other query results.
✑ Provide an audit trail for the primary dataset queries that shows when the keys were used and by whom.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A large telecommunications company is planning to set up a data catalog and metadata management for multiple data sources running on AWS. The catalog will be used to maintain the metadata of all the objects stored in the data stores. The data stores are composed of structured sources like Amazon RDS and Amazon
Redshift, and semistructured sources like JSON and XML files stored in Amazon S3. The catalog must be updated on a regular basis, be able to detect the changes to object metadata, and require the least possible administration.
Which solution meets these requirements?

An ecommerce company is migrating its business intelligence environment from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The company will use Amazon Redshift in a public subnet and Amazon QuickSight. The tables already are loaded into Amazon Redshift and can be accessed by a SQL tool.
The company starts QuickSight for the first time. During the creation of the data source, a data analytics specialist enters all the information and tries to validate the connection. An error with the following message occurs: Creating a connection to your data source timed out.
How should the data analytics specialist resolve this error?

A power utility company is deploying thousands of smart meters to obtain real-time updates about power consumption. The company is using Amazon Kinesis
Data Streams to collect the data streams from smart meters. The consumer application uses the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) to retrieve the stream data. The company has only one consumer application.
The company observes an average of 1 second of latency from the moment that a record is written to the stream until the record is read by a consumer application. The company must reduce this latency to 500 milliseconds.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A banking company is currently using an Amazon Redshift cluster with dense storage (DS) nodes to store sensitive data. An audit found that the cluster is unencrypted. Compliance requirements state that a database with sensitive data must be encrypted through a hardware security module (HSM) with automated key rotation.
Which combination of steps is required to achieve compliance? (Choose two.)

A company needs to collect streaming data from several sources and store the data in the AWS Cloud. The dataset is heavily structured, but analysts need to perform several complex SQL queries and need consistent performance. Some of the data is queried more frequently than the rest. The company wants a solution that meets its performance requirements in a cost-effective manner.
Which solution meets these requirements?