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AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Study Guide
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AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Study Guide

by Sakti Mishra, Dylan Qu, Anusha Challa
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
476 pages
12h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 9. Practice Exam

This chapter is designed to help you assess your readiness and simulate the real certification experience. The following questions cover a wide range of topics and practical scenarios you can expect to encounter on the actual exam. We highly recommend you attempt each question before reviewing the detailed solutions and rationales provided. This will not only test your knowledge but also deepen your understanding of the core concepts and help you think critically about how to apply AWS data and analytics services effectively. The answers are listed in the Appendix. Good luck!

  1. A company aims to construct an open source–based change data capture (CDC) pipeline to extract changes from an Amazon Aurora MySQL database and load the change streams into an Amazon S3–based data lake.

    As a Solutions Architect, which steps should you take to configure this pipeline? (Select three.)

    1. Enable binary logging on the Aurora MySQL database to allow change data capture.

    2. Deploy the Debezium MySQL connector directly on the Aurora MySQL instance to capture data changes.

    3. Deploy MSK Connect with the Debezium MySQL source connector to stream changes from Aurora MySQL to MSK topics.

    4. Deploy an Amazon MSK cluster to serve as the streaming platform for the change data.

    5. Set up AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to replicate data from Aurora MySQL to Amazon S3.

    6. Use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to natively read the binary log from the Aurora MySQL database.

  2. An ecommerce company collects ...

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