AWSCertified Solutions Architect - Associate
Domain 3Objective 5
Task 3.5: Determine High-Performing Data Ingestion and Transformation Solutions SAA-C03 Practice Questions (Page 4)
Part of the Design High-Performing Architectures domain, which makes up ~30% of our current practice bank. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 130-minute exam (~50–85 total, ~15–26 in this domain), expect 3–5 from this objective — we provide 31 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 16–20
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A data engineer is deciding between storing data in CSV or Parquet format in a data lake. What is a key benefit of using Parquet over CSV for analytics workloads?
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A company has CSV files in Amazon S3 and wants to convert them to Parquet for better query performance. Which AWS service can be used to perform this transformation?
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A company needs to perform complex data transformations using Apache Spark, and it wants a managed service that allows them to choose the cluster size and instance types. Which AWS service is appropriate for this workload?
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A company is building a data lake on Amazon S3. The data governance team wants to centrally manage permissions for tables and databases, and provide fine-grained access control to the data. Which AWS service is designed to help build and secure a data lake with these capabilities?
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A company needs to ingest sales transaction data from thousands of stores into a central data store. The data is required for end-of-day reporting, and a delay of a few hours is acceptable. Which ingestion pattern best fits this requirement?
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