EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company stores data in a data lake that is in Amazon S3. Some data that the company stores in the data lake contains personally identifiable information (PII). Multiple user groups need to access the raw data. The company must ensure that user groups can access only the PII that they require.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?

Question2: A data engineer must orchestrate a data pipeline that consists of one AWS Lambda function and one AWS Glue job. The solution must integrate with AWS services.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead?

Question3: A data engineer notices that Amazon Athena queries are held in a queue before the queries run.
How can the data engineer prevent the queries from queueing?

Question4: A retail company uses AWS Glue for extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations on a dataset that contains information about customer orders. The company wants to implement specific validation rules to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question5: A data engineer runs Amazon Athena queries on data that is in an Amazon S3 bucket. The Athena queries use AWS Glue Data Catalog as a metadata table.
The data engineer notices that the Athena query plans are experiencing a performance bottleneck. The data engineer determines that the cause of the performance bottleneck is the large number of partitions that are in the S3 bucket. The data engineer must resolve the performance bottleneck and reduce Athena query planning time.
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question6: A data engineer wants to improve the performance of SQL queries in Amazon Athena that run against a sales data table.
The data engineer wants to understand the execution plan of a specific SQL statement. The data engineer also wants to see the computational cost of each operation in a SQL query.
Which statement does the data engineer need to run to meet these requirements?

Question7: A company uses an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to store financial transaction data. The company migrates the transaction data from the on-premises database to AWS at the end of each month. The company has noticed that the cost to migrate data from the on-premises database to an Amazon RDS for SQL Server database has increased recently.
The company requires a cost-effective solution to migrate the data to AWS. The solution must cause minimal downtown for the applications that access the database.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question8: A company uses Amazon Athena to run SQL queries for extract, transform, and load (ETL) tasks by using Create Table As Select (CTAS). The company must use Apache Spark instead of SQL to generate analytics.
Which solution will give the company the ability to use Spark to access Athena?

Question9: A company stores data from an application in an Amazon DynamoDB table that operates in provisioned capacity mode. The workloads of the application have predictable throughput load on a regular schedule. Every Monday, there is an immediate increase in activity early in the morning.
The application has very low usage during weekends.
The company must ensure that the application performs consistently during peak usage times.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?

Question10: A company is planning to migrate on-premises Apache Hadoop clusters to Amazon EMR. The company also needs to migrate a data catalog into a persistent storage solution.
The company currently stores the data catalog in an on-premises Apache Hive metastore on the Hadoop clusters. The company requires a serverless solution to migrate the data catalog.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question11: A company plans to provision a log delivery stream within a VPC. The company configured the VPC flow logs to publish to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. The company needs to send the flow logs to Splunk in near real time for further analysis.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question12: A company uses Amazon Athena for one-time queries against data that is in Amazon S3. The company has several use cases. The company must implement permission controls to separate query processes and access to query history among users, teams, and applications that are in the same AWS account.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question13: A company uses an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to store financial transaction data. The company migrates the transaction data from the on-premises database to AWS at the end of each month. The company has noticed that the cost to migrate data from the on-premises database to an Amazon RDS for SQL Server database has increased recently.
The company requires a cost-effective solution to migrate the data to AWS. The solution must cause minimal downtown for the applications that access the database.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question14: An insurance company stores transaction data that the company compressed with gzip.
The company needs to query the transaction data for occasional audits.
Which solution will meet this requirement in the MOST cost-effective way?

Question15: A company is planning to upgrade its Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) General Purpose SSD storage from gp2 to gp3. The company wants to prevent any interruptions in its Amazon EC2 instances that will cause data loss during the migration to the upgraded storage.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question16: A company is building an analytics solution. The solution uses Amazon S3 for data lake storage and Amazon Redshift for a data warehouse. The company wants to use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to query the data that is in Amazon S3.
Which actions will provide the FASTEST queries? (Choose two.)

Question17: A data engineer needs to join data from multiple sources to perform a one-time analysis job. The data is stored in Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3.
Which solution will meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?

Question18: A company maintains multiple extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows that ingest data from the company's operational databases into an Amazon S3 based data lake. The ETL workflows use AWS Glue and Amazon EMR to process data.
The company wants to improve the existing architecture to provide automated orchestration and to require minimal manual effort.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question19: A marketing company collects clickstream data. The company sends the clickstream data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and stores the clickstream data in Amazon S3. The company wants to build a series of dashboards that hundreds of users from multiple departments will use.
The company will use Amazon QuickSight to develop the dashboards. The company wants a solution that can scale and provide daily updates about clickstream activity.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)

Question20: A data engineer must ingest a source of structured data that is in .csv format into an Amazon S3 data lake. The .csv files contain 15 columns. Data analysts need to run Amazon Athena queries on one or two columns of the dataset. The data analysts rarely query the entire file.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question21: A media company wants to improve a system that recommends media content to customer based on user behavior and preferences. To improve the recommendation system, the company needs to incorporate insights from third-party datasets into the company's existing analytics platform.
The company wants to minimize the effort and time required to incorporate third-party datasets.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question22: A company is designing a data lake on Amazon S3. To ensure high performance when accessing the data, which best practice should the company adopt in organizing its data in the S3 bucket?

Question23: A company stores details about transactions in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to log all writes to the S3 bucket into another S3 bucket that is in the same AWS Region.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?

Question24: A data engineer is building a data pipeline on AWS by using AWS Glue extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. The data engineer needs to process data from Amazon RDS and MongoDB, perform transformations, and load the transformed data into Amazon Redshift for analytics. The data updates must occur every hour.
Which combination of tasks will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
(Choose two.)

Question25: A financial services company stores financial data in Amazon Redshift. A data engineer wants to run real-time queries on the financial data to support a web-based trading application. The data engineer wants to run the queries from within the trading application.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question26: A company extracts approximately 1 TB of data every day from data sources such as SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, and Amazon DynamoDB. Some of the data sources have undefined data schemas or data schemas that change.
A data engineer must implement a solution that can detect the schema for these data sources.
The solution must extract, transform, and load the data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company has a service level agreement (SLA) to load the data into the S3 bucket within 15 minutes of data creation.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question27: A company stores datasets in JSON format and .csv format in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company has Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables that are in provisioned capacity mode, and an Amazon Redshift cluster. A data engineering team must develop a solution that will give data scientists the ability to query all data sources by using syntax similar to SQL.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question28: A data engineer is using Amazon Athena to analyze sales data that is in Amazon S3. The data engineer writes a query to retrieve sales amounts for 2023 for several products from a table named sales_data. However, the query does not return results for all of the products that are in the sales_data table. The data engineer needs to troubleshoot the query to resolve the issue.
The data engineer's original query is as follows:
SELECT product_name, sum(sales_amount)
FROM sales_data
WHERE year = 2023
GROUP BY product_name
How should the data engineer modify the Athena query to meet these requirements?

Question29: A company stores petabytes of data in thousands of Amazon S3 buckets in the S3 Standard storage class. The data supports analytics workloads that have unpredictable and variable data access patterns.
The company does not access some data for months. However, the company must be able to retrieve all data within milliseconds. The company needs to optimize S3 storage costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question30: A company's data engineer needs to optimize the performance of table SQL queries. The company stores data in an Amazon Redshift cluster. The data engineer cannot increase the size of the cluster because of budget constraints.
The company stores the data in multiple tables and loads the data by using the EVEN distribution style. Some tables are hundreds of gigabytes in size. Other tables are less than 10 MB in size.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question31: A company receives .csv files that contain physical address data. The data is in columns that have the following names: Door_No, Street_Name, City, and Zip_Code. The company wants to create a single column to store these values in the following format:

Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST coding effort?

Question32: A media company uses software as a service (SaaS) applications to gather data by using third- party tools. The company needs to store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company will use Amazon Redshift to perform analytics based on the data.
Which AWS service or feature will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question33: During a security review, a company identified a vulnerability in an AWS Glue job. The company discovered that credentials to access an Amazon Redshift cluster were hard coded in the job script.
A data engineer must remediate the security vulnerability in the AWS Glue job. The solution must securely store the credentials.
Which combination of steps should the data engineer take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question34: A data engineer needs to securely transfer 5 TB of data from an on-premises data center to an Amazon S3 bucket. Approximately 5% of the data changes every day. Updates to the data need to be regularly proliferated to the S3 bucket. The data includes files that are in multiple formats.
The data engineer needs to automate the transfer process and must schedule the process to run periodically.
Which AWS service should the data engineer use to transfer the data in the MOST operationally efficient way?

Question35: A data engineer has a one-time task to read data from objects that are in Apache Parquet format in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data engineer needs to query only one column of the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question36: A data engineer needs to debug an AWS Glue job that reads from Amazon S3 and writes to Amazon Redshift. The data engineer enabled the bookmark feature for the AWS Glue job.
The data engineer has set the maximum concurrency for the AWS Glue job to 1.
The AWS Glue job is successfully writing the output to Amazon Redshift. However, the Amazon S3 files that were loaded during previous runs of the AWS Glue job are being reprocessed by subsequent runs.
What is the likely reason the AWS Glue job is reprocessing the files?

Question37: What is the primary purpose of data lineage in data engineering?

Question38: A company stores 10 to 15 TB of uncompressed .csv files in Amazon S3. The company is evaluating Amazon Athena as a one-time query engine.
The company wants to transform the data to optimize query runtime and storage costs.
Which file format and compression solution will meet these requirements for Athena queries?

Question39: A company is planning to use a provisioned Amazon EMR cluster that runs Apache Spark jobs to perform big data analysis. The company requires high reliability. A big data team must follow best practices for running cost-optimized and long-running workloads on Amazon EMR. The team must find a solution that will maintain the company's current level of performance.
Which combination of resources will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)

Question40: A data engineer must orchestrate a series of Amazon Athena queries that will run every day.
Each query can run for more than 15 minutes.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)

Question41: An airline company is collecting metrics about flight activities for analytics. The company is conducting a proof of concept (POC) test to show how analytics can provide insights that the company can use to increase on-time departures.
The POC test uses objects in Amazon S3 that contain the metrics in .csv format. The POC test uses Amazon Athena to query the data. The data is partitioned in the S3 bucket by date.
As the amount of data increases, the company wants to optimize the storage solution to improve query performance.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question42: A data engineer needs Amazon Athena queries to finish faster. The data engineer notices that all the files the Athena queries use are currently stored in uncompressed .csv format. The data engineer also notices that users perform most queries by selecting a specific column.
Which solution will MOST speed up the Athena query performance?

Question43: A financial company wants to implement a data mesh. The data mesh must support centralized data governance, data analysis, and data access control. The company has decided to use AWS Glue for data catalogs and extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations.
Which combination of AWS services will implement a data mesh? (Choose two.)

Question44: A company has multiple applications that use datasets that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket.
The company has an ecommerce application that generates a dataset that contains personally identifiable information (PII). The company has an internal analytics application that does not require access to the PII.
To comply with regulations, the company must not share PII unnecessarily. A data engineer needs to implement a solution that with redact PII dynamically, based on the needs of each application that accesses the dataset.
Which solution will meet the requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question45: An online retail company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in a VPC. The company wants to collect flow logs for the VPC and analyze network traffic.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question46: A data engineer must build an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline to process and load data from 10 source systems into 10 tables that are in an Amazon Redshift database. All the source systems generate .csv, JSON, or Apache Parquet files every 15 minutes. The source systems all deliver files into one Amazon S3 bucket. The file sizes range from 10 MB to 20 GB.
The ETL pipeline must function correctly despite changes to the data schema.
Which data pipeline solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question47: A company wants to implement real-time analytics capabilities. The company wants to use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Redshift to ingest and process streaming data at the rate of several gigabytes per second. The company wants to derive near real-time insights by using existing business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question48: A data engineer finished testing an Amazon Redshift stored procedure that processes and inserts data into a table that is not mission critical. The engineer wants to automatically run the stored procedure on a daily basis.
Which solution will meet this requirement in the MOST cost-effective way?

Question49: A banking company uses an application to collect large volumes of transactional data. The company uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for real-time analytics. The company's application uses the PutRecord action to send data to Kinesis Data Streams.
A data engineer has observed network outages during certain times of day. The data engineer wants to configure exactly-once delivery for the entire processing pipeline.
Which solution will meet this requirement?

Question50: A company has a business intelligence platform on AWS. The company uses an AWS Storage Gateway Amazon S3 File Gateway to transfer files from the company's on-premises environment to an Amazon S3 bucket.
A data engineer needs to setup a process that will automatically launch an AWS Glue workflow to run a series of AWS Glue jobs when each file transfer finishes successfully.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question51: A lab uses IoT sensors to monitor humidity, temperature, and pressure for a project. The sensors send 100 KB of data every 10 seconds. A downstream process will read the data from an Amazon S3 bucket every 30 seconds.
Which solution will deliver the data to the S3 bucket with the LEAST latency?

Question52: You have been tasked with migrating an on-premises MySQL database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). The stakeholder emphasizes that the source database must remain fully operational during the migration process.
Which of the following statements about DMS is accurate with respect to this scenario?

Question53: A company is migrating on-premises workloads to AWS. The company wants to reduce overall operational overhead. The company also wants to explore serverless options.
The company's current workloads use Apache Pig, Apache Oozie, Apache Spark, Apache Hbase, and Apache Flink. The on-premises workloads process petabytes of data in seconds. The company must maintain similar or better performance after the migration to AWS.
Which extract, transform, and load (ETL) service will meet these requirements?

Question54: A company needs to partition the Amazon S3 storage that the company uses for a data lake. The partitioning will use a path of the S3 object keys in the following format:
s3://bucket/prefix/year=2023/month=01/day=01.
A data engineer must ensure that the AWS Glue Data Catalog synchronizes with the S3 storage when the company adds new partitions to the bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST latency?

Question55: A data engineering team is using an Amazon Redshift data warehouse for operational reporting.
The team wants to prevent performance issues that might result from long- running queries. A data engineer must choose a system table in Amazon Redshift to record anomalies when a query optimizer identifies conditions that might indicate performance issues.
Which table views should the data engineer use to meet this requirement?

Question56: A data engineer needs to use AWS Step Functions to design an orchestration workflow. The workflow must parallel process a large collection of data files and apply a specific transformation to each file.
Which Step Functions state should the data engineer use to meet these requirements?

Question57: An ecommerce company wants to use AWS to migrate data pipelines from an on-premises environment into the AWS Cloud. The company currently uses a third-party tool in the on- premises environment to orchestrate data ingestion processes.
The company wants a migration solution that does not require the company to manage servers.
The solution must be able to orchestrate Python and Bash scripts. The solution must not require the company to refactor any code.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?