What it covers
The official exam guide breaks this domain into 8 objectives:
- Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
- Define the AWS global infrastructure
- Identify AWS compute services
- Identify AWS database services
- Identify AWS network services
- Identify AWS storage services
- Identify AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning services and analytics services
- Identify services from other in-scope AWS service categories
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A sample question
Which AWS service is designed to collect and process large streams of data records in real time?
- AAmazon S3 Glacier, which provides low-cost archival object storage.
- BAmazon Athena, which runs SQL queries against data stored in Amazon S3.
- CAWS Artifact, which provides on-demand access to compliance documents.
- DAmazon Kinesis, which collects and processes streaming data in real time.
Amazon Kinesis ingests and processes large streams of data in real time. Glacier is archival storage, Athena queries data at rest in S3, and Artifact provides compliance documentation.
Which AWS service is used to create interactive dashboards and visualizations for business intelligence?
- AAmazon QuickSight, which creates interactive business intelligence dashboards.
- BAWS Glue, which discovers, catalogs, and transforms data for analytics.
- CAmazon Textract, which extracts text and data from scanned documents.
- DAmazon EFS, which provides a shared file system for multiple instances.
Amazon QuickSight is AWS's business intelligence service for building interactive dashboards and visualizations. Glue handles data preparation, Textract extracts document data, and EFS is shared file storage.
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