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1
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What is the primary purpose of Amazon S3?

A

Object storage

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Which AWS service is used for data warehousing?

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Amazon Redshift

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3
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True or False: AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service.

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True

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4
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What does ETL stand for?

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Extract, Transform, Load

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5
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Which service is used for real-time data streaming in AWS?

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Amazon Kinesis

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6
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What type of storage does Amazon EBS provide?

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Block storage

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Fill in the blank: AWS Lambda allows you to run code without _____ provisioning servers.

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manually

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8
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Which AWS service provides data lake capabilities?

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AWS Lake Formation

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What is the main function of Amazon Athena?

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Querying data in S3 using SQL

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10
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What is AWS CloudFormation used for?

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Infrastructure as code

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11
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Which AWS service is primarily used for data analytics?

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Amazon EMR

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Fill in the blank: AWS Data Pipeline is used for _____ data processing workflows.

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orchestrating

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13
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What does the AWS Well-Architected Framework help with?

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Building secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure

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14
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Which service is best for batch data processing in AWS?

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AWS Batch

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15
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What is the key benefit of using Amazon Redshift Spectrum?

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Querying data directly from S3 without loading it into Redshift

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16
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Fill in the blank: AWS Glue Data Catalog is a _____ for metadata.

A

repository

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17
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What is the purpose of Amazon SageMaker?

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Building, training, and deploying machine learning models

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18
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Which AWS service is used to manage and analyze large datasets?

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Amazon EMR

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19
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True or False: AWS Step Functions enable you to coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows.

A

True

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20
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Fill in the blank: Amazon Aurora is a _____ database service.

A

relational

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21
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Which AWS service is used for data migration?

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AWS Database Migration Service

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22
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What is the main use case for AWS Glue Crawlers?

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Discovering and cataloging data in S3

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23
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True or False: Amazon EMR can process data using Apache Spark.

A

True

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24
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What is the role of AWS DataBrew?

A

Visual data preparation for analytics

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Fill in the blank: AWS Lake Formation simplifies the process of building a _____ data lake.

A

secure

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26
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What is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose used for?

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Loading streaming data into data lakes and warehouses

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27
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True or False: AWS Glue is not a serverless service.

A

False

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28
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What is the purpose of Amazon Timestream?

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Time series database service

29
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Fill in the blank: Amazon OpenSearch Service is used for _____ and analytics.

30
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Which service provides a fully managed Elasticsearch solution?

A

Amazon OpenSearch Service

31
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What is the main benefit of using Amazon S3 Select?

A

Retrieving a subset of data from S3 objects

32
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True or False: Amazon S3 is designed for high durability.

33
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What is AWS Data Exchange used for?

A

Finding, subscribing to, and using third-party data

34
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Fill in the blank: AWS Glue ETL jobs can be triggered on a _____ schedule.

35
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What is the purpose of Amazon Comprehend?

A

Natural language processing service

36
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Which AWS service is used for data transformation?

37
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True or False: Amazon Redshift can scale automatically.

38
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What is the primary use case for Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth?

A

Building high-quality training datasets

39
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Fill in the blank: AWS Data Pipeline supports _____ data processing.

40
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What is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)?

A

A fully managed service for Apache Kafka

41
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True or False: AWS Glue supports Python and Scala for ETL jobs.

42
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What is the main benefit of using Amazon Redshift RA3 nodes?

A

Separate compute and storage scaling

43
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Fill in the blank: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is designed for _____ data processing.

44
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What is the purpose of AWS Glue Schema Registry?

A

Managing schemas for streaming applications

45
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True or False: AWS Data Wrangler is a Python library for data processing.

46
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What is the primary function of AWS Snowball?

A

Data transfer appliance

47
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Fill in the blank: Amazon QuickSight provides _____ analytics capabilities.

A

business intelligence

48
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What is the purpose of AWS CodePipeline?

A

Continuous integration and delivery service

49
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True or False: AWS Data Pipeline can automate data movement.

50
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What is the main use of Amazon Rekognition?

A

Image and video analysis

51
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What is the purpose of AWS Glue Jobs?

A

Running ETL operations

52
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True or False: Amazon EMR is priced based on the resources used.

53
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What is the role of AWS CloudTrail?

A

Logging AWS account activity

54
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Fill in the blank: Amazon Redshift uses _____ to store data.

A

columnar storage

55
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What does the AWS SDK allow developers to do?

A

Interact with AWS services programmatically

56
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True or False: AWS Glue can handle both batch and streaming data.

57
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What is the primary use case for Amazon EMR Notebooks?

A

Interactive data analysis and visualization

58
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Fill in the blank: Amazon Kinesis enables the processing of _____ data streams.

59
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What is the main benefit of using AWS CloudWatch?

A

Monitoring AWS resources and applications

60
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True or False: AWS Glue can automatically generate ETL code.

61
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What is the purpose of Amazon Personalize?

A

Building real-time recommendation systems

62
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Fill in the blank: AWS Lake Formation helps manage _____ in a data lake.

A

permissions

63
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What is the main function of Amazon Athena?

A

Ad-hoc querying of data stored in S3

64
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True or False: AWS Glue can connect to various data sources.

65
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What does the AWS Data Pipeline service allow you to do?

A

Orchestrate data workflows

66
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Fill in the blank: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics enables you to analyze _____ data.

67
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What is the main advantage of using Amazon RDS?

A

Automated backups and scaling

68
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True or False: AWS Glue supports both serverless and provisioned resources.

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