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Question1: A software company hosts an application on AWS, and new features are released weekly. As part of the application testing process, a solution must be developed that analyzes logs from each Amazon EC2 instance to ensure that the application is working as expected after each deployment. The collection and analysis solution should be highly available with the ability to display new information with minimal delays.Which method should the company use to collect and analyze the logs?
Question2: A company uses an Amazon EMR cluster with 50 nodes to process operational data and make the data available for data analysts These jobs run nightly use Apache Hive with the Apache Jez framework as a processing model and write results to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) In the last few weeks, jobs are failing and are producing the following error message"File could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of 1"A data analytics specialist checks the DataNode logs the NameNode logs and network connectivity for potential issues that could have prevented HDFS from replicating data The data analytics specialist rules out these factors as causes for the issue Which solution will prevent the jobs from failing'?
Question3: A large retailer has successfully migrated to an Amazon S3 data lake architecture. The company's marketing team is using Amazon Redshift and Amazon QuickSight to analyze data, and derive and visualize insights. To ensure the marketing team has the most up-to-date actionable information, a data analyst implements nightly refreshes of Amazon Redshift using terabytes of updates from the previous day.After the first nightly refresh, users report that half of the most popular dashboards that had been running correctly before the refresh are now running much slower. Amazon CloudWatch does not show any alerts.What is the MOST likely cause for the performance degradation?
Question4: 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?
Question5: A hospital uses wearable medical sensor devices to collect data from patients. The hospital is architecting a near-real-time solution that can ingest the data securely at scale. The solution should also be able to remove the patient's protected health information (PHI) from the streaming data and store the data in durable storage.Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
Question6: A data analyst runs a large number of data manipulation language (DML) queries by using Amazon Athena with the JDBC driver. Recently, a query failed after It ran for 30 minutes. The query returned the following message Java.sql.SGLException: Query timeout The data analyst does not immediately need the query results However, the data analyst needs a long-term solution for this problem Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question7: A company using Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition has thousands of dashboards analyses and datasets. The company struggles to manage and assign permissions for granting users access to various items within QuickSight. The company wants to make it easier to implement sharing and permissions management.Which solution should the company implement to simplify permissions management?
Question8: A company is building an analytical solution that includes Amazon S3 as data lake storage and Amazon Redshift for data warehousing. The company wants to use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to query the data that is stored in Amazon S3.Which steps should the company take to improve performance when the company uses Amazon Redshift Spectrum to query the S3 data files? (Select THREE ) Use gzip compression with individual file sizes of 1-5 GB
Question9: A telecommunications company is looking for an anomaly-detection solution to identify fraudulent calls. The company currently uses Amazon Kinesis to stream voice call records in a JSON format from its on-premises database to Amazon S3. The existing dataset contains voice call records with 200 columns. To detect fraudulent calls, the solution would need to look at 5 of these columns only.The company is interested in a cost-effective solution using AWS that requires minimal effort and experience in anomaly-detection algorithms.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question10: A regional energy company collects voltage data from sensors attached to buildings. To address any known dangerous conditions, the company wants to be alerted when a sequence of two voltage drops is detected within 10 minutes of a voltage spike at the same building. It is important to ensure that all messages are delivered as quickly as possible. The system must be fully managed and highly available. The company also needs a solution that will automatically scale up as it covers additional cites with this monitoring feature. The alerting system is subscribed to an Amazon SNS topic for remediation.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question11: A media analytics company consumes a stream of social media posts. The posts are sent to an Amazon Kinesis data stream partitioned on user_id. An AWS Lambda function retrieves the records and validates the content before loading the posts into an Amazon Elasticsearch cluster. The validation process needs to receive the posts for a given user in the order they were received. A data analyst has noticed that, during peak hours, the social media platform posts take more than an hour to appear in the Elasticsearch cluster.What should the data analyst do reduce this latency?
Question12: A hospital is building a research data lake to ingest data from electronic health records (EHR) systems from multiple hospitals and clinics. The EHR systems are independent of each other and do not have a common patient identifier. The data engineering team is not experienced in machine learning (ML) and has been asked to generate a unique patient identifier for the ingested records.Which solution will accomplish this task?
Question13: A company wants to provide its data analysts with uninterrupted access to the data in its Amazon Redshift cluster. All data is streamed to an Amazon S3 bucket with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. An AWS Glue job that is scheduled to run every 5 minutes issues a COPY command to move the data into Amazon Redshift.The amount of data delivered is uneven throughout the day, and cluster utilization is high during certain periods. The COPY command usually completes within a couple of seconds. However, when load spike occurs, locks can exist and data can be missed. Currently, the AWS Glue job is configured to run without retries, with timeout at 5 minutes and concurrency at 1.How should a data analytics specialist configure the AWS Glue job to optimize fault tolerance and improve data availability in the Amazon Redshift cluster?
Question14: A data analyst is using AWS Glue to organize, cleanse, validate, and format a 200 GB dataset. The data analyst triggered the job to run with the Standard worker type. After 3 hours, the AWS Glue job status is still RUNNING. Logs from the job run show no error codes. The data analyst wants to improve the job execution time without overprovisioning.Which actions should the data analyst take?
Question15: A company developed a new elections reporting website that uses Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to deliver full logs from AWS WAF to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company is now seeking a low-cost option to perform this infrequent data analysis with visualizations of logs in a way that requires minimal development effort.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question16: A financial company uses Amazon S3 as its data lake and has set up a data warehouse using a multi-node Amazon Redshift cluster. The data files in the data lake are organized in folders based on the data source of each data file. All the data files are loaded to one table in the Amazon Redshift cluster using a separate COPY command for each data file location. With this approach, loading all the data files into Amazon Redshift takes a long time to complete. Users want a faster solution with little or no increase in cost while maintaining the segregation of the data files in the S3 data lake.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question17: A company is planning to do a proof of concept for a machine learning (ML) project using Amazon SageMaker with a subset of existing on-premises data hosted in the company's 3 TB data warehouse. For part of the project, AWS Direct Connect is established and tested. To prepare the data for ML, data analysts are performing data curation. The data analysts want to perform multiple step, including mapping, dropping null fields, resolving choice, and splitting fields. The company needs the fastest solution to curate the data for this project.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question18: A large financial company is running its ETL process. Part of this process is to move data from Amazon S3 into an Amazon Redshift cluster. The company wants to use the most cost-efficient method to load the dataset into Amazon Redshift.Which combination of steps would meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Question19: 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?
Question20: A human resources company maintains a 10-node Amazon Redshift cluster to run analytics queries on the company's dat a. 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?
Question21: A company wants to optimize the cost of its data and analytics platform. The company is ingesting a number of.csv and JSON files in Amazon S3 from various data sources. Incoming data is expected to be 50 GB each day. The company is using Amazon Athena to query the raw data in Amazon S3 directly. Most queries aggregate data from the past 12 months, and data that is older than 5 years is infrequently queried. The typical query scans about 500 MB of data and is expected to return results in less than 1 minute. The raw data must be retained indefinitely for compliance requirements.Which solution meets the company's requirements?
Question22: A large energy company is using Amazon QuickSight to build dashboards and report the historical usage data of its customers This data is hosted in Amazon Redshift The reports need access to all the fact tables' billions ot records to create aggregation in real time grouping by multiple dimensions A data analyst created the dataset in QuickSight by using a SQL query and not SPICE Business users have noted that the response time is not fast enough to meet their needs Which action would speed up the response time for the reports with the LEAST implementation effort?
Question23: A company wants to improve user satisfaction for its smart home system by adding more features to its recommendation engine. Each sensor asynchronously pushes its nested JSON data into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using the Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) in Jav a. Statistics from a set of failed sensors showed that, when a sensor is malfunctioning, its recorded data is not always sent to the cloud.The company needs a solution that offers near-real-time analytics on the data from the most updated sensors. Which solution enables the company to meet these requirements?
Question24: An online retailer needs to deploy a product sales reporting solution. The source data is exported from an external online transaction processing (OLTP) system for reporting. Roll-up data is calculated each day for the previous day's activities. The reporting system has the following requirements:Have the daily roll-up data readily available for 1 year.After 1 year, archive the daily roll-up data for occasional but immediate access.The source data exports stored in the reporting system must be retained for 5 years. Query access will be needed only for re-evaluation, which may occur within the first 90 days.Which combination of actions will meet these requirements while keeping storage costs to a minimum? (Choose two.)
Question25: A company has a data warehouse in Amazon Redshift that is approximately 500 TB in size. New data is imported every few hours and read-only queries are run throughout the day and evening. There is a particularly heavy load with no writes for several hours each morning on business days. During those hours, some queries are queued and take a long time to execute. The company needs to optimize query execution and avoid any downtime.What is the MOST cost-effective solution?
Question26: A marketing company is storing its campaign response data in Amazon S3. A consistent set of sources has generated the data for each campaign. The data is saved into Amazon S3 as .csv files. A business analyst will use Amazon Athena to analyze each campaign's dat a. The company needs the cost of ongoing data analysis with Athena to be minimized.Which combination of actions should a data analytics specialist take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Question27: A company stores Apache Parquet-formatted files in Amazon S3 The company uses an AWS Glue Data Catalog to store the table metadata and Amazon Athena to query and analyze the data The tables have a large number of partitions The queries are only run on small subsets of data in the table A data analyst adds new time partitions into the table as new data arrives The data analyst has been asked to reduce the query runtime Which solution will provide the MOST reduction in the query runtime?
Question28: An online retail company uses Amazon Redshift to store historical sales transactions. The company is required to encrypt data at rest in the clusters to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). A corporate governance policy mandates management of encryption keys using an on-premises hardware security module (HSM).Which solution meets these requirements?
Question29: A company hosts an on-premises PostgreSQL database that contains historical dat a. An internal legacy application uses the database for read-only activities. The company's business team wants to move the data to a data lake in Amazon S3 as soon as possible and enrich the data for analytics.The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between its VPC and its on-premises network. A data analytics specialist must design a solution that achieves the business team's goals with the least operational overhead.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question30: A marketing company is using Amazon EMR clusters for its workloads. The company manually installs third- party libraries on the clusters by logging in to the master nodes. A data analyst needs to create an automated solution to replace the manual process.Which options can fulfill these requirements? (Choose two.)
Question31: A utility company wants to visualize data for energy usage on a daily basis in Amazon QuickSight A data analytics specialist at the company has built a data pipeline to collect and ingest the data into Amazon S3 Each day the data is stored in an individual csv file in an S3 bucket This is an example of the naming structure20210707_datacsv 20210708_datacsvTo allow for data querying in QuickSight through Amazon Athena the specialist used an AWS Glue crawler to create a table with the path "s3 //powertransformer/20210707_data csv" However when the data is queried, it returns zero rows How can this issue be resolved?
Question32: A company launched a service that produces millions of messages every day and uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams as the streaming service.The company uses the Kinesis SDK to write data to Kinesis Data Streams. A few months after launch, a data analyst found that write performance is significantly reduced. The data analyst investigated the metrics and determined that Kinesis is throttling the write requests. The data analyst wants to address this issue without significant changes to the architecture.Which actions should the data analyst take to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)
Question33: A media content company has a streaming playback application. The company wants to collect and analyze the data to provide near-real-time feedback on playback issues. The company needs to consume this data and return results within 30 seconds according to the service-level agreement (SLA). The company needs the consumer to identify playback issues, such as quality during a specified timeframe. The data will be emitted as JSON and may change schemas over time.Which solution will allow the company to collect data for processing while meeting these requirements?
Question34: A company is building a data lake and needs to ingest data from a relational database that has time-series dat a. The company wants to use managed services to accomplish this. The process needs to be scheduled daily and bring incremental data only from the source into Amazon S3.What is the MOST cost-effective approach to meet these requirements?
Question35: An advertising company has a data lake that is built on Amazon S3. The company uses AWS Glue Data Catalog to maintain the metadat a. The data lake is several years old and its overall size has increased exponentially as additional data sources and metadata are stored in the data lake. The data lake administrator wants to implement a mechanism to simplify permissions management between Amazon S3 and the Data Catalog to keep them in sync Which solution will simplify permissions management with minimal development effort?
Question36: A company operates toll services for highways across the country and collects data that is used to understand usage patterns. Analysts have requested the ability to run traffic reports in near-real time. The company is interested in building an ingestion pipeline that loads all the data into an Amazon Redshift cluster and alerts operations personnel when toll traffic for a particular toll station does not meet a specified threshold. Station data and the corresponding threshold values are stored in Amazon S3.Which approach is the MOST efficient way to meet these requirements?
Question37: An analytics software as a service (SaaS) provider wants to offer its customers business intelligence <BI) reporting capabilities that are self-service The provider is using Amazon QuickSight to build these reports The data for the reports resides in a multi-tenant database, but each customer should only be able to access their own data The provider wants to give customers two user role options* Read-only users for individuals who only need to view dashboards* Power users for individuals who are allowed to create and share new dashboards with other users Which QuickSight feature allows the provider to meet these requirements'?
Question38: A US-based sneaker retail company launched its global website. All the transaction data is stored in Amazon RDS and curated historic transaction data is stored in Amazon Redshift in the us-east-1 Region. The business intelligence (BI) team wants to enhance the user experience by providing a dashboard for sneaker trends.The BI team decides to use Amazon QuickSight to render the website dashboards. During development, a team in Japan provisioned Amazon QuickSight in ap-northeast-1. The team is having difficulty connecting Amazon QuickSight from ap-northeast-1 to Amazon Redshift in us-east-1.Which solution will solve this issue and meet the requirements?
Question39: A retail company wants to use Amazon QuickSight to generate dashboards for web and in-store sales. A group of 50 business intelligence professionals will develop and use the dashboards. Once ready, the dashboards will be shared with a group of 1,000 users.The sales data comes from different stores and is uploaded to Amazon S3 every 24 hours. The data is partitioned by year and month, and is stored in Apache Parquet format. The company is using the AWS Glue Data Catalog as its main data catalog and Amazon Athena for querying. The total size of the uncompressed data that the dashboards query from at any point is 200 GB.Which configuration will provide the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?
Question40: 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?
Question41: An IoT company wants to release a new device that will collect data to track sleep overnight on an intelligent mattress. Sensors will send data that will be uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. About 2 MB of data is generated each night for each bed. Data must be processed and summarized for each user, and the results need to be available as soon as possible. Part of the process consists of time windowing and other functions. Based on tests with a Python script, every run will require about 1 GB of memory and will complete within a couple of minutes.Which solution will run the script in the MOST cost-effective way?
Question42: 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 dat a. 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?
Question43: A banking company is currently using an Amazon Redshift cluster with dense storage (DS) nodes to store sensitive dat a. 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.)
Question44: A large company receives files from external parties in Amazon EC2 throughout the day. At the end of the day, the files are combined into a single file, compressed into a gzip file, and uploaded to Amazon S3. The total size of all the files is close to 100 GB daily. Once the files are uploaded to Amazon S3, an AWS Batch program executes a COPY command to load the files into an Amazon Redshift cluster.Which program modification will accelerate the COPY process?
Question45: An Amazon Redshift database contains sensitive user data. Logging is necessary to meet compliance requirements. The logs must contain database authentication attempts, connections, and disconnections. The logs must also contain each query run against the database and record which database user ran each query.Which steps will create the required logs?
Question46: A company is streaming its high-volume billing data (100 MBps) to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. A data analyst partitioned the data on account_id to ensure that all records belonging to an account go to the same Kinesis shard and order is maintained. While building a custom consumer using the Kinesis Java SDK, the data analyst notices that, sometimes, the messages arrive out of order for account_id. Upon further investigation, the data analyst discovers the messages that are out of order seem to be arriving from different shards for the same account_id and are seen when a stream resize runs.What is an explanation for this behavior and what is the solution?
Question47: 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 dat a. 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?
Question48: 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?
Question49: A data analyst is designing a solution to interactively query datasets with SQL using a JDBC connection. Users will join data stored in Amazon S3 in Apache ORC format with data stored in Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) and Amazon Aurora MySQL.Which solution will provide the MOST up-to-date results?
Question50: A streaming application is reading data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and immediately writing the data to an Amazon S3 bucket every 10 seconds. The application is reading data from hundreds of shards. The batch interval cannot be changed due to a separate requirement. The data is being accessed by Amazon Athen a. Users are seeing degradation in query performance as time progresses.Which action can help improve query performance?
Question51: 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 dat a. 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.)
Question52: A company uses Amazon Redshift as its data warehouse A new table includes some columns that contain sensitive data and some columns that contain non-sensitive data The data in the table eventually will be referenced by several existing queries that run many times each day A data analytics specialist must ensure that only members of the company's auditing team can read the columns that contain sensitive data All other users must have read-only access to the columns that contain non-sensitive data Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?