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In Analytics there are 4 types of analysis you can make. What are their names?

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-Descriptive analytics
-Diagnostic analytics
-Predictive analytics
-Prescriptive analytics

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What are Descriptive Analytics?

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Descriptive analytics focuses on analyzing present and past data to determine what is happening at present.

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What are Diagnostic Analytics?

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Diagnostic Analystic focus on analysing data to determine for what reason something happens.

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What are Predictive Analytics?

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Predictive analytics focuses on determining what might happen

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What are Prescriptive Analytics?

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Prescriptive analytics are similar to predictive analytics, but instead of only predicting what might happen you also suggests actions to take and what are their consequences

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Explain Amazon CodeWhisperer

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Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AWS AI Service that generates and comments code ussing LLM tecnology.

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True or False: Amazon CodeWhisperer can detect security vulnerabilities in your code

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True

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What are the 5 big Vs of big data and what do they mean?

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-Volume: The amount of date being ingested
-Variety: The number and types of data sources
-Velocity: The speed with which new data is processed and stored
-Veracity: The degree to which the data can be trusted
-Value: The amount of information that can be extracted from the data

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What are the 3 most frequent caracterizations of data based on their format?

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-Structured Data
-Semi-structured Data
-Unstructured Data

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What are the 4 data processing velocities?

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-Scheduled
-Periodic
-Near real-time
-Real-time

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What is AWS Lake Formation?

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A service that simplifies ingesting, cleaning, cataloging, transforming, and securing data on S3 Data Lakes.

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AWS’ main data warehousing solution is called AWS __________

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Redshift

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Complete the following statement regarding ETL on AWS:
When looking at a standard, simplified ETL pipeline on AWS, one should use ________. For customized processes, however, one should use __________.

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-Glue
-EMR

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What are the 4 main functions of a Data Lake?

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-Ingest and store data
-Catalog data for searches
-Secure and protect data
-Allow analytics and insights to be run

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What are the 6 stages on an Analytics pipeline?

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-Data Source
-Ingestion
-Data Store
-Cataloging and processing stage
-Search and analytics stage
-Visualization stage

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What are the 3 main challenges in mantaining a data lake?

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-Data governance
-Data quality
-Security

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What are AWS Lake Formation’s 4 main features?

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-Automate building the data lake environment (collecting, moving, cleansing data, etc)
-Store metadata from raw and processed datasets
-Orchestrate ETL jobs, crawlers and triggers using AWS Glue
-Centralize access control to the data lake

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Lake formation security model consists of 3 security roles to be used in managing the lake. What are they?

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-Lake formation administrator
-Database Creator
-Table Creator

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What permissions does the Lake Formation administrator have?

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-Has full read access to resources
-Has data location permissions
-Can grant or revoke access to resources, including self
-Can create databases
-Can grant permission to create databases

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What permissions does the Lake Formation Database Creator have?

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-Has all database permissions on databases that they create
-Has permissions on tables that they create
-Can use console or API to designate database creators

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What permissions does the Lake Formation Table Creator have?

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-Has permissions on tables that they create
-Can grant permissions on tables that they create
-Can view databases containing the tables that they create

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The AWS Service for Data Mesh is called __________

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DataZone

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What are the main Kinesis services?

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-Kinesis Data Streams
-Kinesis Video Streams
-Kinesis Firehose
-Kinesis Analytics

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What are the default and the max Kinesis Data Streams data retention?

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-Default: 24 hours
-Max: 365 days

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True or False: Kinesis Data Streams data can only be deleted using the AWS SDK
False, it cannot be deleted at all
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What are the 2 Kinesis Data Streams provisioning types?
-On-demand -Provisioned
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Kinesis data streams data is stored inside ______ that make up _______
-Shards -Partitions
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What are the Kinesis Data Streams Shard parts?
-Partition key: Indicates the shard's partition -Sequence: Indicate the sard location inside the partition -Data: Contains up to 1MB of data
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What are the Kinesis Data Streams data producers?
-The AWS SDK -The AWS Kinesis Agent -The Kinesist Production Library (KPL)
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True or False: A Kinesis Data Stream shard can have multiple producers and consumers
False, 1 producer, multiple consumers
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What are the Kinesis Data Streams data consumers?
-AWS SDK -Kinesis Client Library -Lambda
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How much data can you write to Kinesis Data Streams per second?
-1MB/s or 1000 messages/s per shard
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How much data can you read from Kinesis Data Streams per second?
-2MB/s or 5 API calls per second per shard
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True or False: When using Consumer Enhanced Fan-Out Kinesis Data Streams, You cannot read data using APIs since it's a push model
True
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AWS Kinesis Firehose can send data to 3 possible destinations: AWS, 3rd party partner or Custom (Any HTTP endpoint). What are the possible AWS destinations for Kinesis Firehose Data?
-S3 -Redshift -OpenSearch
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Whats the minimum latency fo Kinesis Firehose to write data to it's destination?
60s
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True or False: Kinesis Firehose updates data in real time
False, near real time (60s delay at least)
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What AWS Service can you use to peform custom treatments on AWS Kinesis Firehose Data? (Select one): -Glue -Lambda -EMR -Sagemaker
-Lambda
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How does Kinesis Firehose Buffers work?
The buffer has 2 main parameters BufferSize (in MB) and BufferTime (in seconds). It only writes the data when one of those buffer values is reached
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True or False: Kinesis Firehose stores data that passes though it for 7 days
False, it does not store data at all
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What are the main use cases for Kinesis Data Analytics?
-Streaming ETL (only simple transformations) -Continuous Metric Generation -Responsive analytics for certain metrics
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What languages does Kinesis Data Analytics accept?
Flink and SQL
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True or False: You can use AWS Lambda do pre-process Kinesis Data Analytics data
True
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What's the name of the AWS Service used to run Apache Kafka inside of AWS
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)
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Amazon MSK has both provisioned and serverless settings
True
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What are the differences between Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon MSK regarding: -Message Size -Data organization -Structure resizing -Cryptography
-KDS has a max message size of 1MB, while MSK has a default size of 1MB that can be increased up to 10MB -KDS has data streams with shards, while MSK has Kafka Topics with Partitions -KDS accepts shard splitting and merging, while MSK can only add partitions to a topic - Both support KMS and TLS, but MSK also supports Plaintext in-flight encryption
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What are the accepted data consumers for Amazon MSK?
-Lambda -Glue -Kinesis Analytics -Custom applications running on EC2, ECS, etc
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What EMR use cases?
Big Data ML, Big Data Processing, etc
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True or False: EMR means Elastic MapReduce, and it creates Fargate Hadoop clusters to analyze and process vast amounts of data
False, EMR runs on EC2 clusters
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What are the EMR node types and what are their functions?
- Master Node: Manage the cluster, coordinate, manage health - Core Node: Run tasks and store data - Task Node (Optional): Just runs task, usually Spot instances
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What are the EMR purchasing options?
-On-demand -Reserved (Min 1 year) -Spot Instances
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What are the types of EMR Instance Groups?
-Uniform instance groups: All nodes have same instance type and configurations -Instance fleet: select target capacity, mix instance types and purchasing options
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True or False: EMR has no auto-scaling for both EMR Instance Groups
False, Uniform Instance Groups have Auto-Scaling
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True or False: AWS Glue is fully serverless
True
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What is Amazon Quicksight
It's a BI tool offered by AWS to visualize data on multiple different sources
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To control acess to dashboard, Quicksight uses _________ and ________
Users and Groups

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