AWS DAS-C01 Sample Questions:

01. A company is providing analytics services to its marketing and human

resources (HR) departments. The departments can only access the data
through their business intelligence (BI) tools, which run Presto queries on an
Amazon EMR cluster that uses the EMR File System (EMRFS).
The marketing data analyst must be granted access to the advertising table
only. The HR data analyst must be granted access to the personnel table only.
Which approach will satisfy these requirements?
a) Create separate IAM roles for the marketing and HR users. Assign the roles with
AWS Glue resourcebased policies to access their corresponding tables in the AWS Glue
Data Catalog. Configure Presto to use the AWS Glue Data Catalog as the Apache Hive
metastore.
b) Create the marketing and HR users in Apache Ranger. Create separate policies that
allow access to the user's corresponding table only. Configure Presto to use Apache
Ranger and an external Apache Hive metastore running in Amazon RDS.
c) Create separate IAM roles for the marketing and HR users. Configure EMR to use
IAM roles for EMRFS access. Create a separate bucket for the HR and marketing data.
Assign appropriate permissions so the users will only see their corresponding datasets.
d) Create the marketing and HR users in Apache Ranger. Create separate policies that
allows access to the user's corresponding table only. Configure Presto to use Apache
Ranger and the AWS Glue Data Catalog as the Apache Hive metastore.
 
02. A company ingests a large set of clickstream data in nested JSON format
from different sources and stores it in Amazon S3.
Data analysts need to analyze this data in combination with data stored in an
Amazon Redshift cluster. Data analysts want to build a cost-effective and
automated solution for this need.
Which solution meets these requirements?
a) Use Apache Spark SQL on Amazon EMR to convert the clickstream data to a tabular
format. Use the Amazon Redshift COPY command to load the data into the Amazon
Redshift cluster.
b) Use AWS Lambda to convert the data to a tabular format and write it to Amazon S3.
Use the Amazon Redshift COPY command to load the data into the Amazon Redshift
cluster.
c) Use the Relationalize class in an AWS Glue ETL job to transform the data and write
the data back to Amazon S3. Use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to create external tables
and join with the internal tables.
d) Use the Amazon Redshift COPY command to move the clickstream data directly into
new tables in the Amazon Redshift cluster.
 
03. A company needs to implement a near-real-time fraud prevention feature
for its ecommerce site.
User and order details need to be delivered to an Amazon SageMaker endpoint
to flag suspected fraud. The amount of input data needed for the inference
could be as much as 1.5 MB.
Which solution meets the requirements with the LOWEST overall latency?
a) Create an Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka cluster and ingest the data for each
order into a topic. Use a Kafka consumer running on Amazon EC2 instances to read
these messages and invoke the Amazon SageMaker endpoint.
b) Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Streams stream and ingest the data for each order
into the stream. Create an AWS Lambda function to read these messages and invoke
the Amazon SageMaker endpoint.
c) Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream and ingest the data for
each order into the stream. Configure Kinesis Data Firehose to deliver the data to an
Amazon S3 bucket. Trigger an AWS Lambda function with an S3 event notification to
read the data and invoke the Amazon SageMaker endpoint.
d) Create an Amazon SNS topic and publish the data for each order to the topic.
Subscribe the Amazon SageMaker endpoint to the SNS topic.
 
04. A publisher website captures user activity and sends clickstream data to
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.
The publisher wants to design a cost-effective solution to process the data to
create a timeline of user activity within a session. The solution must be able to
scale depending on the number of active sessions.
Which solution meets these requirements?
a) Include a variable in the clickstream data from the publisher website to maintain a
counter for the number of active user sessions. Use a timestamp for the partition key
for the stream. Configure the consumer application to read the data from the stream
and change the number of processor threads based upon the counter. Deploy the
consumer application on Amazon EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling group.
b) Include a variable in the clickstream to maintain a counter for each user action
during their session. Use the action type as the partition key for the stream. Use the
Kinesis Client Library (KCL) in the consumer application to retrieve the data from the
stream and perform the processing. Configure the consumer application to read the
data from the stream and change the number of processor threads based upon the
counter. Deploy the consumer application on AWS Lambda.
c) Include a session identifier in the clickstream data from the publisher website and
use as the partition key for the stream. Use the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) in the
consumer application to retrieve the data from the stream and perform the processing.
Deploy the consumer application on Amazon EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling
group. Use an AWS Lambda function to reshard the stream based upon Amazon
CloudWatch alarms.
d) Include a variable in the clickstream data from the publisher website to maintain a
counter for the number of active user sessions. Use a timestamp for the partition key
for the stream. Configure the consumer application to read the data from the stream
and change the number of processor threads based upon the counter. Deploy the
consumer application on AWS Lambda.
 
05. A company is currently using Amazon DynamoDB as the database for a
user support application.
The company is developing a new version of the application that will store a
PDF file for each support case ranging in size from 1–10 MB. The file should be
retrievable whenever the case is accessed in the application.
How can the company store the file in the MOST cost-effective manner?
a) Store the file in Amazon DocumentDB and the document ID as an attribute in the
DynamoDB table.
b) Store the file in Amazon S3 and the object key as an attribute in the DynamoDB
table.
c) Split the file into smaller parts and store the parts as multiple items in a separate
DynamoDB table.
d) Store the file as an attribute in the DynamoDB table using Base64 encoding.
 
06. A data engineer needs to create a dashboard to display social media trends
during the last hour of a large company event. The dashboard needs to display
the associated metrics with a consistent latency of less than 2 minutes.
Which solution meets these requirements?
a) Publish the raw social media data to an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery
stream. Use Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications to perform a sliding window
analysis to compute the metrics and output the results to a Kinesis Data Streams data
stream. Configure an AWS Lambda function to save the stream data to an Amazon
DynamoDB table. Deploy a real-time dashboard hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket to read
and display the metrics data stored in the DynamoDB table.
b) Publish the raw social media data to an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery
stream. Configure the stream to deliver the data to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service
cluster with a buffer interval of 0 seconds. Use Kibana to perform the analysis and
display the results.
c) Publish the raw social media data to an Amazon Kinesis Data Streams data stream.
Configure an AWS Lambda function to compute the metrics on the stream data and
save the results in an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure a dashboard in Amazon QuickSight
to query the data using Amazon Athena and display the results.
d) Publish the raw social media data to an Amazon SNS topic. Subscribe an Amazon
SQS queue to the topic. Configure Amazon EC2 instances as workers to poll the queue,
compute the metrics, and save the results to an Amazon Aurora MySQL database.
Configure a dashboard in Amazon QuickSight to query the data in Aurora and display
the results.
 
07. A real estate company is receiving new property listing data from its
agents through .csv files every day and storing these files in Amazon S3.
The data analytics team created an Amazon QuickSight visualization report
that uses a dataset imported from the S3 files. The data analytics team wants
the visualization report to reflect the current data up to the previous day.
How can a data analyst meet these requirements?
a) Schedule an AWS Lambda function to drop and re-create the dataset daily.
b) Configure the visualization to query the data in Amazon S3 directly without loading
the data into SPICE.
c) Schedule the dataset to refresh daily.
d) Close and open the Amazon QuickSight visualization.
 
08. A financial company uses Amazon EMR for its analytics workloads. During
the company’s annual security audit, the security team determined that none
of the EMR clusters’ root volumes are encrypted. The security team
recommends the company encrypt its EMR clusters’ root volume as soon as
possible.
Which solution would meet these requirements?
a) Enable at-rest encryption for EMR File System (EMRFS) data in Amazon S3 in a
security configuration. Re-create the cluster using the newly created security
configuration.
b) Specify local disk encryption in a security configuration. Re-create the cluster using
the newly created security configuration.
c) Detach the Amazon EBS volumes from the master node. Encrypt the EBS volume
and attach it back to the master node.
d) Re-create the EMR cluster with LZO encryption enabled on all volumes.
 
09. An online retail company wants to perform analytics on data in large
Amazon S3 objects using Amazon EMR.
An Apache Spark job repeatedly queries the same data to populate an
analytics dashboard. The analytics team wants to minimize the time to load
the data and create the dashboard.
Which approaches could improve the performance?
(Select TWO.)
a) Copy the source data into Amazon Redshift and rewrite the Apache Spark code to
create analytical reports by querying Amazon Redshift.
b) Copy the source data from Amazon S3 into Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
using s3distcp.
c) Load the data into Spark DataFrames.
d) Stream the data into Amazon Kinesis and use the Kinesis Connector Library (KCL) in
multiple Spark jobs to perform analytical jobs.
e) Use Amazon S3 Select to retrieve the data necessary for the dashboards from the
S3 objects.
 
10. A media company is migrating its on-premises legacy Hadoop cluster with
its associated data processing scripts and workflow to an Amazon EMR
environment running the latest Hadoop release. The developers want to reuse
the Java code that was written for data processing jobs for the on-premises
cluster.
Which approach meets these requirements?
a) Deploy the existing Oracle Java Archive as a custom bootstrap action and run the
job on the EMR cluster.
b) Compile the Java program for the desired Hadoop version and run it using a
CUSTOM_JAR step on the EMR cluster.
c) Submit the Java program as an Apache Hive or Apache Spark step for the EMR
cluster.
d) Use SSH to connect the master node of the EMR cluster and submit the Java
program using the AWS CLI.

Answers:
Question: 01 Question: 02 Question: 03 Question: 04 Question: 05
Answer: a Answer: c Answer: a Answer: c Answer: b
Question: 06 Question: 07 Question: 08 Question: 09 Question: 10
Answer: a Answer: c Answer: b Answer: c, e Answer: b
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