Data Engineering - Past Questions

Question 1

What is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytical tools?

Answer 1

Kinesis Firehose

Question 2

Where can Kinesis Firehose load data into?

Answer 2

Amazon S3, Amaozn RedShift, Amazon Elastic search service and splunk

Question 3

What is Amazon Quicksight used for?

Answer 3

For creating and publishing interactive BI dashboards that include ML powered insights.

Question 4

What is the drawback of EMR cluster?

Answer 4

You need to manage the underlying infastructure.

Question 5

What is Amazon EMR?

Answer 5

a managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, on AWS to process and analyze vast amounts of data.

Question 6

Do you need to write S3 data into RDS before accessing it with Amazon Quicksight?

Answer 6

No Quicksight can access data directly from S3

Question 7

What is the easiest way to analyse streaming data?

Answer 7

Kinesis Data Analytics

Question 8

What can you build using KDA?

Answer 8

SQL queries and Apache Flink applications in a supported language like Java or Scala.

Question 9

Where can Amazon KDS send data to?

Answer 9

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Spark on EMR, Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda