The AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01) exam validates a candidate’s ability to implement data pipelines and to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cost and performance issues in accordance with best practices.
This exam validates a candidate's ability to complete the following tasks:
- Ingest and transform data, and orchestrate data pipelines while applying programming concepts.
- Choose an optimal data store, design data models, catalog data schemas, and manage data lifecycles.
- Operationalize, maintain, and monitor data pipelines. Analyze data and ensure data quality.
- Implement appropriate authentication, authorization, data encryption, privacy, and governance. Enable logging.
Who Should Take This Exam?
The target candidate should have the equivalent of 2–3 years of experience in data engineering. The target candidate should understand the effects of volume, variety, and velocity on data ingestion, transformation, modeling, security, governance, privacy, schema design, and optimal data store design. Additionally, the target candidate should have at least 1–2 years of hands-on experience with AWS services. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
- Setup and maintenance of extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines from ingestion to destination
- Application of high-level but language-agnostic programming concepts as required by the pipeline
- How to use Git commands for source control
- How to use data lakes to store data
- General concepts for networking, storage, and compute
Steps to Achieve Your AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate Certification
- Attend Building Modern Data Analytics Solutions on AWS
- Attend Exam Prep: AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01)
- Pass the following exams: