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Data Operations and Support Questions

Practice questions for Data Operations and Support topic in AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate. 45 questions covering this domain.

45 questions11 easy23 medium11 hard
Q1
hard

Which statement about CloudTrail Lake event data stores is correct?

Q2
medium

A team needs a service that shows AWS resource configurations, relationships between resources, and how those configurations changed over time. Which ...

Q3
medium

Application logs contain sensitive fields that should be masked by default when they match selected data identifiers. Which CloudWatch capability addr...

Q4
easy

A security team wants a managed record of actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDKs and APIs. Which AWS service provides this...

Q5
medium

An auditor needs to review management events from the last 30 days in one AWS Region without setting up a trail first. Which CloudTrail feature is the...

Q6
medium

A data scientist wants to develop Spark code from the Amazon Athena console by using the simplified notebook experience. Which Athena capability suppo...

Q7
easy

A data engineer wants to run Apache Spark analytics in Athena without planning capacity or managing clusters. Which statement is correct?

Q8
hard

An operations team needs to investigate how a security group and an EC2 instance were configured in the past and how their relationship changed over t...

Q9
medium

A security analyst wants to run SQL-based queries on CloudTrail events, with the events stored in a columnar format optimized for fast retrieval. Whic...

Q10
medium

During an incident, an engineer wants to query logs to identify likely causes and then rerun similar queries after a deployment to verify the fix. Whi...

Q11
easy

An operations team needs to interactively search and analyze application logs stored in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Which feature should they use?

Q12
medium

Which AWS service automatically detects operational issues in applications by analyzing metrics, logs, and traces using ML, and surfaces actionable in...

Q13
medium

A team wants Athena queries from multiple departments to share a query result location, set per-team data scan limits, and report cost per team. Which...

Q14
medium

An engineer wants to alert when an Amazon Redshift cluster's CPU stays above 80% for 15 minutes. Which AWS capability should be used?

Q15
hard

An engineer wants to share governed views of data across AWS accounts to internal and external consumers with subscription workflows and a business ca...

Q16
medium

A team wants to optimize Amazon Athena query cost. Which approach reduces both scan size and cost?

Q17
hard

A nightly Glue job is unexpectedly slow. The team must analyze stage and task metrics, executor utilization, and Spark history. Which Glue feature pro...

Q18
medium

A team needs to monitor data quality (null counts, completeness, freshness) across its Glue Data Catalog tables and define rules. Which AWS feature sh...

Q19
easy

Which AWS service provides a graphical, ad-hoc, interactive query interface for data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL via Apache Presto/Trino?

Q20
hard

An EMR Spark job intermittently fails with task-level OOM errors. Which troubleshooting approach is BEST aligned with AWS guidance?

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