EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company's marketing team has asked for help in identifying a high performing long-term storage service for their data based on the following requirements:
* The data size is approximately 32 TB uncompressed.
* There is a low volume of single-row inserts each day.
* There is a high volume of aggregation queries each day.
* Multiple complex joins are performed.
* The queries typically involve a small subset of the columns in a table.
Which storage service will provide the MOST performant solution?

Question2: 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?

Question3: A marketing company collects clickstream data The company sends the data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and stores the data in Amazon S3 The company wants to build a series of dashboards that will be used by hundreds of users across different departments The company will use Amazon QuickSight to develop these dashboards The company has limited resources and wants a solution that could scale and provide daily updates about clickstream activity Which combination of options will provide the MOST cost-effective solution? (Select TWO )

Question4: 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?

Question5: 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?

Question6: An online retail company with millions of users around the globe wants to improve its ecommerce analytics capabilities. Currently, clickstream data is uploaded directly to Amazon S3 as compressed files. Several times each day, an application running on Amazon EC2 processes the data and makes search options and reports available for visualization by editors and marketers. The company wants to make website clicks and aggregated data available to editors and marketers in minutes to enable them to connect with users more effectively.
Which options will help meet these requirements in the MOST efficient way? (Choose two.)

Question7: A company's marketing team has asked for help in identifying a high performing long-term storage service for their data based on the following requirements:
* The data size is approximately 32 TB uncompressed.
* There is a low volume of single-row inserts each day.
* There is a high volume of aggregation queries each day.
* Multiple complex joins are performed.
* The queries typically involve a small subset of the columns in a table.
Which storage service will provide the MOST performant solution?

Question8: A company uses the Amazon Kinesis SDK to write data to Kinesis Data Streams. Compliance requirements state that the data must be encrypted at rest using a key that can be rotated. The company wants to meet this encryption requirement with minimal coding effort.
How can these requirements be met?

Question9: A large company has a central data lake to run analytics across different departments. Each department uses a separate AWS account and stores its data in an Amazon S3 bucket in that account. Each AWS account uses the AWS Glue Data Catalog as its data catalog. There are different data lake access requirements based on roles. Associate analysts should only have read access to their departmental data. Senior data analysts can have access in multiple departments including theirs, but for a subset of columns only.
Which solution achieves these required access patterns to minimize costs and administrative tasks?

Question10: A team of data scientists plans to analyze market trend data for their company's new investment strategy. The trend data comes from five different data sources in large volumes. The team wants to utilize Amazon Kinesis to support their use case. The team uses SQL-like queries to analyze trends and wants to send notifications based on certain significant patterns in the trends. Additionally, the data scientists want to save the data to Amazon S3 for archival and historical re-processing, and use AWS managed services wherever possible. The team wants to implement the lowest-cost solution.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question11: A retail company is building its data warehouse solution using Amazon Redshift. As a part of that effort, the company is loading hundreds of files into the fact table created in its Amazon Redshift cluster. The company wants the solution to achieve the highest throughput and optimally use cluster resources when loading data into the company's fact table.
How should the company meet these requirements?

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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?

Question14: 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?

Question15: A company wants to improve the data load time of a sales data dashboard. Data has been collected as .csv files and stored within an Amazon S3 bucket that is partitioned by date. The data is then loaded to an Amazon Redshift data warehouse for frequent analysis. The data volume is up to 500 GB per day.
Which solution will improve the data loading performance?

Question16: A company currently uses Amazon Athena to query its global datasets. The regional data is stored in Amazon S3 in the us-east-1 and us-west-2 Regions. The data is not encrypted. To simplify the query process and manage it centrally, the company wants to use Athena in us-west-2 to query data from Amazon S3 in both Regions. The solution should be as low-cost as possible.
What should the company do to achieve this goal?

Question17: A financial company hosts a data lake in Amazon S3 and a data warehouse on an Amazon Redshift cluster. The company uses Amazon QuickSight to build dashboards and wants to secure access from its on-premises Active Directory to Amazon QuickSight.
How should the data be secured?

Question18: 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.)

Question19: 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?

Question20: A company that monitors weather conditions from remote construction sites is setting up a solution to collect temperature data from the following two weather stations.
Station A, which has 10 sensors
Station B, which has five sensors
These weather stations were placed by onsite subject-matter experts.
Each sensor has a unique ID. The data collected from each sensor will be collected using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.
Based on the total incoming and outgoing data throughput, a single Amazon Kinesis data stream with two shards is created. Two partition keys are created based on the station names. During testing, there is a bottleneck on data coming from Station A, but not from Station B.
Upon review, it is confirmed that the total stream throughput is still less than the allocated Kinesis Data Streams throughput.
How can this bottleneck be resolved without increasing the overall cost and complexity of the solution, while retaining the data collection quality requirements?

Question21: 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?

Question22: A real estate company has a mission-critical application using Apache HBase in Amazon EMR. Amazon EMR is configured with a single master node. The company has over 5 TB of data stored on an Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). The company wants a cost-effective solution to make its HBase data highly available.
Which architectural pattern meets company's requirements?

Question23: A company has developed an Apache Hive script to batch process data stared in Amazon S3. The script needs to run once every day and store the output in Amazon S3. The company tested the script, and it completes within 30 minutes on a small local three-node cluster.
Which solution is the MOST cost-effective for scheduling and executing the script?

Question24: 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?

Question25: A bank operates in a regulated environment. The compliance requirements for the country in which the bank operates say that customer data for each state should only be accessible by the bank's employees located in the same state. Bank employees in one state should NOT be able to access data for customers who have provided a home address in a different state.
The bank's marketing team has hired a data analyst to gather insights from customer data for a new campaign being launched in certain states. Currently, data linking each customer account to its home state is stored in a tabular .csv file within a single Amazon S3 folder in a private S3 bucket. The total size of the S3 folder is 2 GB uncompressed. Due to the country's compliance requirements, the marketing team is not able to access this folder.
The data analyst is responsible for ensuring that the marketing team gets one-time access to customer data for their campaign analytics project, while being subject to all the compliance requirements and controls.
Which solution should the data analyst implement to meet the desired requirements with the LEAST amount of setup effort?

Question26: 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?

Question27: 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?

Question28: A company stores its sales and marketing data that includes personally identifiable information (PII) in Amazon S3. The company allows its analysts to launch their own Amazon EMR cluster and run analytics reports with the data. To meet compliance requirements, the company must ensure the data is not publicly accessible throughout this process. A data engineer has secured Amazon S3 but must ensure the individual EMR clusters created by the analysts are not exposed to the public internet.
Which solution should the data engineer to meet this compliance requirement with LEAST amount of effort?

Question29: A bank is using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to populate real-time data into a data lake The data lake is built on Amazon S3, and data must be accessible from the data lake within 24 hours Different microservices produce messages to different topics in the cluster The cluster is created with 8 TB of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage and a retention period of 7 days The customer transaction volume has tripled recently and disk monitoring has provided an alert that the cluster is almost out of storage capacity What should a data analytics specialist do to prevent the cluster from running out of disk space1?

Question30: A large ride-sharing company has thousands of drivers globally serving millions of unique customers every day. The company has decided to migrate an existing data mart to Amazon Redshift. The existing schema includes the following tables.
A trips fact table for information on completed rides. A drivers dimension table for driver profiles.
A customers fact table holding customer profile information.
The company analyzes trip details by date and destination to examine profitability by region. The drivers data rarely changes. The customers data frequently changes.
What table design provides optimal query performance?

Question31: A retail company leverages Amazon Athena for ad-hoc queries against an AWS Glue Data Catalog. The data analytics team manages the data catalog and data access for the company. The data analytics team wants to separate queries and manage the cost of running those queries by different workloads and teams. Ideally, the data analysts want to group the queries run by different users within a team, store the query results in individual Amazon S3 buckets specific to each team, and enforce cost constraints on the queries run against the Data Catalog.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question32: A mobile gaming company wants to capture data from its gaming app and make the data available for analysis immediately. The data record size will be approximately 20 KB. The company is concerned about achieving optimal throughput from each device. Additionally, the company wants to develop a data stream processing application with dedicated throughput for each consumer.
Which solution would achieve this goal?

Question33: A company has developed several AWS Glue jobs to validate and transform its data from Amazon S3 and load it into Amazon RDS for MySQL in batches once every day. The ETL jobs read the S3 data using a DynamicFrame. Currently, the ETL developers are experiencing challenges in processing only the incremental data on every run, as the AWS Glue job processes all the S3 input data on each run.
Which approach would allow the developers to solve the issue with minimal coding effort?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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?

Question36: 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?

Question37: A company currently uses Amazon Athena to query its global datasets. The regional data is stored in Amazon S3 in the us-east-1 and us-west-2 Regions. The data is not encrypted. To simplify the query process and manage it centrally, the company wants to use Athena in us-west-2 to query data from Amazon S3 in both Regions. The solution should be as low-cost as possible.
What should the company do to achieve this goal?

Question38: A company leverages Amazon Athena for ad-hoc queries against data stored in Amazon S3. The company wants to implement additional controls to separate query execution and query history among users, teams, or applications running in the same AWS account to comply with internal security policies.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question39: A large company has a central data lake to run analytics across different departments. Each department uses a separate AWS account and stores its data in an Amazon S3 bucket in that account. Each AWS account uses the AWS Glue Data Catalog as its data catalog. There are different data lake access requirements based on roles. Associate analysts should only have read access to their departmental data. Senior data analysts can have access in multiple departments including theirs, but for a subset of columns only.
Which solution achieves these required access patterns to minimize costs and administrative tasks?

Question40: A team of data scientists plans to analyze market trend data for their company's new investment strategy. The trend data comes from five different data sources in large volumes. The team wants to utilize Amazon Kinesis to support their use case. The team uses SQL-like queries to analyze trends and wants to send notifications based on certain significant patterns in the trends. Additionally, the data scientists want to save the data to Amazon S3 for archival and historical re-processing, and use AWS managed services wherever possible. The team wants to implement the lowest-cost solution.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question41: 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 Athena.
Users are seeing degradation in query performance as time progresses.
Which action can help improve query performance?

Question42: 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?

Question43: 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?

Question44: A data analytics specialist is building an automated ETL ingestion pipeline using AWS Glue to ingest compressed files that have been uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. The ingestion pipeline should support incremental data processing.
Which AWS Glue feature should the data analytics specialist use to meet this requirement?

Question45: A retail company leverages Amazon Athena for ad-hoc queries against an AWS Glue Data Catalog. The data analytics team manages the data catalog and data access for the company. The data analytics team wants to separate queries and manage the cost of running those queries by different workloads and teams. Ideally, the data analysts want to group the queries run by different users within a team, store the query results in individual Amazon S3 buckets specific to each team, and enforce cost constraints on the queries run against the Data Catalog.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question46: 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?

Question47: 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?

Question48: A company's data analyst needs to ensure that queries executed in Amazon Athena cannot scan more than a prescribed amount of data for cost control purposes. Queries that exceed the prescribed threshold must be canceled immediately.
What should the data analyst do to achieve this?

Question49: An airline has .csv-formatted data stored in Amazon S3 with an AWS Glue Data Catalog. Data analysts want to join this data with call center data stored in Amazon Redshift as part of a dally batch process. The Amazon Redshift cluster is already under a heavy load. The solution must be managed, serverless, well-functioning, and minimize the load on the existing Amazon Redshift cluster. The solution should also require minimal effort and development activity.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question50: A company wants to improve the data load time of a sales data dashboard. Data has been collected as .csv files and stored within an Amazon S3 bucket that is partitioned by date. The data is then loaded to an Amazon Redshift data warehouse for frequent analysis. The data volume is up to 500 GB per day.
Which solution will improve the data loading performance?

Question51: 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?

Question52: 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?

Question53: 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?

Question54: A mobile gaming company wants to capture data from its gaming app and make the data available for analysis immediately. The data record size will be approximately 20 KB. The company is concerned about achieving optimal throughput from each device. Additionally, the company wants to develop a data stream processing application with dedicated throughput for each consumer.
Which solution would achieve this goal?

Question55: 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?

Question56: 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?

Question57: A mortgage company has a microservice for accepting payments. This microservice uses the Amazon DynamoDB encryption client with AWS KMS managed keys to encrypt the sensitive data before writing the data to DynamoDB. The finance team should be able to load this data into Amazon Redshift and aggregate the values within the sensitive fields. The Amazon Redshift cluster is shared with other data analysts from different business units.
Which steps should a data analyst take to accomplish this task efficiently and securely?

Question58: A company wants to research user turnover by analyzing the past 3 months of user activities. With millions of users, 1.5 TB of uncompressed data is generated each day. A 30-node Amazon Redshift cluster with 2.56 TB of solid state drive (SSD) storage for each node is required to meet the query performance goals.
The company wants to run an additional analysis on a year's worth of historical data to examine trends indicating which features are most popular. This analysis will be done once a week.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question59: A company's data analyst needs to ensure that queries executed in Amazon Athena cannot scan more than a prescribed amount of data for cost control purposes. Queries that exceed the prescribed threshold must be canceled immediately.
What should the data analyst do to achieve this?

Question60: 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?

Question61: An education provider's learning management system (LMS) is hosted in a 100 TB data lake that is built on Amazon S3. The provider's LMS supports hundreds of schools. The provider wants to build an advanced analytics reporting platform using Amazon Redshift to handle complex queries with optimal performance.
System users will query the most recent 4 months of data 95% of the time while 5% of the queries will leverage data from the previous 12 months.
Which solution meets these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?

Question62: 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.)

Question63: A company needs to store objects containing log data in JSON format. The objects are generated by eight applications running in AWS. Six of the applications generate a total of 500 KiB of data per second, and two of the applications can generate up to 2 MiB of data per second.
A data engineer wants to implement a scalable solution to capture and store usage data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The usage data objects need to be reformatted, converted to .csv format, and then compressed before they are stored in Amazon S3. The company requires the solution to include the least custom code possible and has authorized the data engineer to request a service quota increase if needed.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question64: 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?

Question65: A bank wants to migrate a Teradata data warehouse to the AWS Cloud The bank needs a solution for reading large amounts of data and requires the highest possible performance. The solution also must maintain the separation of storage and compute Which solution meets these requirements?

Question66: 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?

Question67: A real estate company has a mission-critical application using Apache HBase in Amazon EMR. Amazon EMR is configured with a single master node. The company has over 5 TB of data stored on an Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). The company wants a cost-effective solution to make its HBase data highly available.
Which architectural pattern meets company's requirements?

Question68: A large company has a central data lake to run analytics across different departments. Each department uses a separate AWS account and stores its data in an Amazon S3 bucket in that account. Each AWS account uses the AWS Glue Data Catalog as its data catalog. There are different data lake access requirements based on roles. Associate analysts should only have read access to their departmental dat a. Senior data analysts can have access in multiple departments including theirs, but for a subset of columns only.
Which solution achieves these required access patterns to minimize costs and administrative tasks?

Question69: 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?

Question70: A university intends to use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to collect JSON-formatted batches of water quality readings in Amazon S3. The readings are from 50 sensors scattered across a local lake. Students will query the stored data using Amazon Athena to observe changes in a captured metric over time, such as water temperature or acidity. Interest has grown in the study, prompting the university to reconsider how data will be stored.
Which data format and partitioning choices will MOST significantly reduce costs? (Choose two.)

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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?

Question73: A university intends to use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to collect JSON-formatted batches of water quality readings in Amazon S3. The readings are from 50 sensors scattered across a local lake. Students will query the stored data using Amazon Athena to observe changes in a captured metric over time, such as water temperature or acidity. Interest has grown in the study, prompting the university to reconsider how data will be stored.
Which data format and partitioning choices will MOST significantly reduce costs? (Choose two.)

Question74: A retail company's data analytics team recently created multiple product sales analysis dashboards for the average selling price per product using Amazon QuickSight. The dashboards were created from .csv files uploaded to Amazon S3. The team is now planning to share the dashboards with the respective external product owners by creating individual users in Amazon QuickSight. For compliance and governance reasons, restricting access is a key requirement. The product owners should view only their respective product analysis in the dashboard reports.
Which approach should the data analytics team take to allow product owners to view only their products in the dashboard?

Question75: A company uses the Amazon Kinesis SDK to write data to Kinesis Data Streams. Compliance requirements state that the data must be encrypted at rest using a key that can be rotated. The company wants to meet this encryption requirement with minimal coding effort.
How can these requirements be met?

Question76: A smart home automation company must efficiently ingest and process messages from various connected devices and sensors. The majority of these messages are comprised of a large number of small files. These messages are ingested using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and sent to Amazon S3 using a Kinesis data stream consumer application. The Amazon S3 message data is then passed through a processing pipeline built on Amazon EMR running scheduled PySpark jobs.
The data platform team manages data processing and is concerned about the efficiency and cost of downstream data processing. They want to continue to use PySpark.
Which solution improves the efficiency of the data processing jobs and is well architected?

Question77: A manufacturing company has been collecting IoT sensor data from devices on its factory floor for a year and is storing the data in Amazon Redshift for daily analysis. A data analyst has determined that, at an expected ingestion rate of about 2 TB per day, the cluster will be undersized in less than 4 months. A long-term solution is needed. The data analyst has indicated that most queries only reference the most recent 13 months of data, yet there are also quarterly reports that need to query all the data generated from the past 7 years. The chief technology officer (CTO) is concerned about the costs, administrative effort, and performance of a long-term solution.
Which solution should the data analyst use to meet these requirements?

Question78: A media company is using Amazon QuickSight dashboards to visualize its national sales dat a. The dashboard is using a dataset with these fields: ID, date, time_zone, city, state, country, longitude, latitude, sales_volume, and number_of_items.
To modify ongoing campaigns, the company wants an interactive and intuitive visualization of which states across the country recorded a significantly lower sales volume compared to the national average.
Which addition to the company's QuickSight dashboard will meet this requirement?

Question79: 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 Athen a. 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?

Question80: A company uses Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) to store and analyze its website clickstream data. The company ingests 1 TB of data daily using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and stores one day's worth of data in an Amazon ES cluster.
The company has very slow query performance on the Amazon ES index and occasionally sees errors from Kinesis Data Firehose when attempting to write to the index. The Amazon ES cluster has 10 nodes running a single index and 3 dedicated master nodes. Each data node has 1.5 TB of Amazon EBS storage attached and the cluster is configured with 1,000 shards. Occasionally, JVMMemoryPressure errors are found in the cluster logs.
Which solution will improve the performance of Amazon ES?

Question81: A company has an application that ingests streaming data. The company needs to analyze this stream over a
5-minute timeframe to evaluate the stream for anomalies with Random Cut Forest (RCF) and summarize the current count of status codes. The source and summarized data should be persisted for future use.
Which approach would enable the desired outcome while keeping data persistence costs low?

Question82: 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.)

Question83: A company stores its sales and marketing data that includes personally identifiable information (PII) in Amazon S3. The company allows its analysts to launch their own Amazon EMR cluster and run analytics reports with the dat a. To meet compliance requirements, the company must ensure the data is not publicly accessible throughout this process. A data engineer has secured Amazon S3 but must ensure the individual EMR clusters created by the analysts are not exposed to the public internet.
Which solution should the data engineer to meet this compliance requirement with LEAST amount of effort?

Question84: An ecommerce company stores customer purchase data in Amazon RDS. The company wants a solution to store and analyze historical data. The most recent 6 months of data will be queried frequently for analytics workloads. This data is several terabytes large. Once a month, historical data for the last 5 years must be accessible and will be joined with the more recent data. The company wants to optimize performance and cost.
Which storage solution will meet these requirements?

Question85: A transportation company uses IoT sensors attached to trucks to collect vehicle data for its global delivery fleet. The company currently sends the sensor data in small .csv files to Amazon S3. The files are then loaded into a 10-node Amazon Redshift cluster with two slices per node and queried using both Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift. The company wants to optimize the files to reduce the cost of querying and also improve the speed of data loading into the Amazon Redshift cluster.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question86: A company currently uses Amazon Athena to query its global datasets. The regional data is stored in Amazon S3 in the us-east-1 and us-west-2 Regions. The data is not encrypted. To simplify the query process and manage it centrally, the company wants to use Athena in us-west-2 to query data from Amazon S3 in both Regions. The solution should be as low-cost as possible.
What should the company do to achieve this goal?

Question87: 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?

Question88: 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?

Question89: A company uses Amazon kinesis Data Streams to ingest and process customer behavior information from application users each day. A data analytics specialist notices that its data stream is throttling. The specialist has turned on enhanced monitoring for the Kinesis data stream and has verified that the data stream did not exceed the data limits. The specialist discovers that there are hot shards Which solution will resolve this issue?

Question90: A global pharmaceutical company receives test results for new drugs from various testing facilities worldwide. The results are sent in millions of 1 KB-sized JSON objects to an Amazon S3 bucket owned by the company. The data engineering team needs to process those files, convert them into Apache Parquet format, and load them into Amazon Redshift for data analysts to perform dashboard reporting. The engineering team uses AWS Glue to process the objects, AWS Step Functions for process orchestration, and Amazon CloudWatch for job scheduling.
More testing facilities were recently added, and the time to process files is increasing.
What will MOST efficiently decrease the data processing time?

Question91: 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?

Question92: A company with a video streaming website wants to analyze user behavior to make recommendations to users in real time Clickstream data is being sent to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and reference data is stored in Amazon S3 The company wants a solution that can use standard SQL quenes The solution must also provide a way to look up pre-calculated reference data while making recommendations Which solution meets these requirements?

Question93: A banking company wants to collect large volumes of transactional data using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for real-time analytics. The company uses PutRecord to send data to Amazon Kinesis, and has observed network outages during certain times of the day. The company wants to obtain exactly once semantics for the entire processing pipeline.
What should the company do to obtain these characteristics?

Question94: A company has developed an Apache Hive script to batch process data stared in Amazon S3. The script needs to run once every day and store the output in Amazon S3. The company tested the script, and it completes within 30 minutes on a small local three-node cluster.
Which solution is the MOST cost-effective for scheduling and executing the script?

Question95: A financial company uses Apache Hive on Amazon EMR for ad-hoc queries. Users are complaining of sluggish performance.
A data analyst notes the following:
* Approximately 90% of queries are submitted 1 hour after the market opens.
* Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) utilization never exceeds 10%.
Which solution would help address the performance issues?

Question96: A large ride-sharing company has thousands of drivers globally serving millions of unique customers every day. The company has decided to migrate an existing data mart to Amazon Redshift. The existing schema includes the following tables.
* A trips fact table for information on completed rides.
* A drivers dimension table for driver profiles.
* A customers fact table holding customer profile information.
The company analyzes trip details by date and destination to examine profitability by region. The drivers data rarely changes. The customers data frequently changes.
What table design provides optimal query performance?

Question97: A manufacturing company wants to create an operational analytics dashboard to visualize metrics from equipment in near-real time. The company uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to stream the data to other applications. The dashboard must automatically refresh every 5 seconds. A data analytics specialist must design a solution that requires the least possible implementation effort.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question98: A company analyzes its data in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse, which currently has a cluster of three dense storage nodes. Due to a recent business acquisition, the company needs to load an additional 4 TB of user data into Amazon Redshift. The engineering team will combine all the user data and apply complex calculations that require I/O intensive resources. The company needs to adjust the cluster's capacity to support the change in analytical and storage requirements.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question99: 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?

Question100: A mobile gaming company wants to capture data from its gaming app and make the data available for analysis immediately. The data record size will be approximately 20 KB. The company is concerned about achieving optimal throughput from each device. Additionally, the company wants to develop a data stream processing application with dedicated throughput for each consumer.
Which solution would achieve this goal?