A marketing agency is considering using a third-party data provider to enrich customer profiles for a targeted advertising campaign. The provider offers a dataset with a high coverage rate but at a high cost. The agency has a limited budget. What should the agency do?

Negotiate with the provider for a lower price without evaluating other options.

Evaluate alternative providers that offer lower cost but may have lower coverage.

Purchase the high-cost dataset because coverage is the most important factor.

Use only internal data to avoid the cost of external data.

A media streaming company is analyzing user viewing behavior. They have a large volume of clickstream data stored in a cloud data lake. The data science team needs to run complex queries that join this data with user profile data stored in a relational database. What is the best approach to enable efficient analysis?

Use a distributed query engine that can query both the data lake and the relational database.

Copy the user profile data into the data lake and use only the data lake for analysis.

Use a cloud data warehouse to store both datasets and run queries there.

Load the clickstream data into the relational database and run queries there.

An AI project needs historical data that resides in an old, outdated system. What is the first step to determine if this data can be used?

Immediately migrate all data to the cloud

Catalog the legacy system and its data

A logistics company is building a real-time shipment tracking system. They need to store high-volume sensor data from IoT devices and provide low-latency access for dashboards. They are evaluating cloud storage options. The company has a variable workload with peaks during business hours. What is the best approach?

Use object storage for sensor data and query it with a serverless query service.

Use a cloud data warehouse for real-time sensor data.

Use a provisioned NoSQL database with a fixed capacity to handle peak loads.

Use a serverless NoSQL database that scales automatically with demand.

A gaming company is analyzing player behavior to improve engagement. They have a large volume of event data stored in a cloud object storage. The data science team needs to run interactive queries on this data. The company is cost-sensitive and wants to minimize query costs. What is the best approach?

Use a serverless query service that charges per query, such as Amazon Athena.

Use a traditional relational database to store the event data.

Load the data into a provisioned data warehouse to ensure performance.

Copy the data to a NoSQL database for faster queries.

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A marketing agency is considering using a third-party data provider to enrich customer profiles for a targeted advertising campaign. The provider offers a dataset with a high coverage rate but at a high cost. The agency has a limited budget. What should the agency do?
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A media streaming company is analyzing user viewing behavior. They have a large volume of clickstream data stored in a cloud data lake. The data science team needs to run complex queries that join this data with user profile data stored in a relational database. What is the best approach to enable efficient analysis?
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An AI project needs historical data that resides in an old, outdated system. What is the first step to determine if this data can be used?
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A logistics company is building a real-time shipment tracking system. They need to store high-volume sensor data from IoT devices and provide low-latency access for dashboards. They are evaluating cloud storage options. The company has a variable workload with peaks during business hours. What is the best approach?
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A gaming company is analyzing player behavior to improve engagement. They have a large volume of event data stored in a cloud object storage. The data science team needs to run interactive queries on this data. The company is cost-sensitive and wants to minimize query costs. What is the best approach?
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