Master AWS data engineering with comprehensive preparation for the DEA-C01 exam. Practice Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Lake Formation, and data governance.
The AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01) validates expertise in ingesting, transforming, and orchestrating data pipelines on AWS. This certification demonstrates your ability to build, maintain, and operate data infrastructure using services like Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, and Lake Formation.
Exam Details: 65 questions | 130 minutes | Passing score: ~720/1000 | Cost: $150 USD
The exam covers four domains: Data Ingestion and Transformation (34%), Data Store Management (26%), Data Operations and Support (22%), and Data Security and Governance (18%). You'll need hands-on experience with AWS data services, ETL pipelines, and data lake architectures.
130 minutes
~65 questions
720 (scaled)
DEA-C01
AWS
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Glue ETL jobs and crawlers, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
Amazon S3 data lake architecture and storage classes, Amazon Redshift data warehousing and optimization, Amazon DynamoDB for NoSQL data storage
Amazon CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms for data pipelines, AWS Glue job monitoring and error handling, Amazon Redshift performance tuning (DISTKEY, SORTKEY, WLM)
AWS KMS encryption for data at rest and in transit, AWS Lake Formation column-level and row-level security, S3 bucket policies, ACLs, and encryption
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