AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate Practice Exams
DEA-C01Build and operate data pipelines on AWS: ingestion and transformation, data store management, operations and orchestration, and data security and governance.
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5 flashcard sets · 5 learning tests · 2 timed exams · 100-question bank
Overview
What this certification is and how the exam works.
The AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate validates skill in building data pipelines on AWS: ingestion and transformation with Kinesis, Glue, and EMR, managing data stores like S3 data lakes and Redshift, operating pipelines, and enforcing data security and governance. The exam has 65 questions in 130 minutes.
Why should I take the exam?
What this credential does for your career.
- 1Data engineering is consistently among the fastest-growing tech professions
- 2Validates the exact AWS analytics stack — Glue, Redshift, Kinesis, Lake Formation — used by data teams everywhere
- 3Complements both the analytics path (Power BI, Athena) and the ML path (MLA-C01)
- 4Replaced the retired Data Analytics – Specialty as the definitive AWS data credential
Skills measured
What you need to know to pass this exam.
- ✓Ingest and transform data with Kinesis, Glue, EMR, and Lambda
- ✓Choose and manage data stores: S3 data lakes, Redshift, and DynamoDB
- ✓Design data models, partitioning, and lifecycle management
- ✓Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot data pipelines and ensure data quality
- ✓Apply data security and governance: Lake Formation, KMS, and IAM
About our DEA-C01 practice exams
Our AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate DEA-C01 question bank holds 100 exam-style questions with a written explanation on every answer, mapped to the four exam domains published for DEA-C01, covering Data Ingestion and Transformation, Data Store Management, Data Operations and Support and Data Security and Governance.
Alongside the bank there are two full-length timed exams at the real 130-minute limit and 72% pass mark, plus five topic-based learning tests for working a single domain at a time. Randomised mock exams are dealt on demand from the full 100-question pool, so you never run out of fresh papers.
- Questions
- 100
- Exam domains
- 4
- Timed exams
- 2
- Pass mark
- 72%
How our practice content is created
Practice questions are independently developed using the official AWS DEA-C01 exam guide and AWS documentation. Each question is checked for alignment with the current exam objectives and reviewed for technical accuracy before publication.
The DEA-C01 bank cites 98 distinct AWS documentation pages, and every question links the source it was written against — so you can check any answer at first hand.
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Official resources
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Previous exam versions
Old or retired versions of this certification exam.
| Exam name | Code | Retired |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty | DAS-C01 | April 2024 |
| AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty | BDS-C00 | April 2020 |
5 flashcard sets · 5 learning tests · 2 timed exams · 100-question bank