AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) Prep: Practice Tests and Quiz Review Checklist

Master modern data engineering concepts, tools, and best practices to pass the AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) exam with confidence.

Available tracks: Professional Track. Compare the course outline with your teacher's requirements or the current external exam objectives before deciding which topics need additional preparation. Broad preparation does not establish complete coverage of every board, grade or jurisdiction.

Start with these lesson topics: 1.1 Ingesting Streaming Data with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams; 1.2 Configuring Delivery Streams with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose; 1.3 Managed Apache Kafka Deployments with Amazon MSK. Close the notes and explain the connection between the topics before answering questions.

Choose an exercise or lab from this module, show each step and compare your result with the lesson explanation. If a quiz answer was a guess, record it as a review item even when it was correct.

Start with these lesson topics: 2.1 Database Migration Strategies with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS); 2.2 Automating SaaS Data Ingestion using Amazon AppFlow; 2.3 Large-Scale Data Transfer with the AWS Snow Family and DataSync. Close the notes and explain the connection between the topics before answering questions.

Choose an exercise or lab from this module, show each step and compare your result with the lesson explanation. If a quiz answer was a guess, record it as a review item even when it was correct.

Start with these lesson topics: 3.1 Managing Metadata and Catalogs with AWS Glue Crawlers and Schema Registry; 3.2 Developing Serverless Spark ETL Jobs with AWS Glue Studio; 3.3 Data Cleansing and Visual Transformations using AWS Glue DataBrew. Close the notes and explain the connection between the topics before answering questions.

Choose an exercise or lab from this module, show each step and compare your result with the lesson explanation. If a quiz answer was a guess, record it as a review item even when it was correct.

Start with these lesson topics: 4.1 Provisioning and Sizing Amazon EMR Clusters with Apache Spark and Hive; 4.2 Running Containerized and Serverless Workloads with Amazon EMR Serverless; 4.3 Orchestrating Complex Data Pipelines using AWS Step Functions. Close the notes and explain the connection between the topics before answering questions.

Choose an exercise or lab from this module, show each step and compare your result with the lesson explanation. If a quiz answer was a guess, record it as a review item even when it was correct.

Start with these lesson topics: 5.1 Designing S3 Data Lake Partitioning and File Formats (Parquet, ORC, Avro); 5.2 S3 Storage Classes, Lifecycle Configurations, and Intelligent-Tiering; 5.3 Architecting Amazon Redshift Clusters, Workgroups, and Redshift Serverless. Close the notes and explain the connection between the topics before answering questions.

Choose an exercise or lab from this module, show each step and compare your result with the lesson explanation. If a quiz answer was a guess, record it as a review item even when it was correct.

Sign in to take the fixed free practice paper. This course offers 1 free paper, with 10 questions per paper. Record the topic and reason for each mistake; repeating a fixed paper may improve familiarity without demonstrating broader readiness.

Paid practice papers contain 30–50 questions. Purchased papers support saved continuation and review; use the actual explanations to identify what needs more study.

For each missed or guessed question, record the topic, the choice you made, why it was tempting, the correct reasoning and one new example. Separate knowledge gaps from misreading and timing problems. Revisit the underlying lesson rather than memorising the answer's position.

Check the final-assessment instructions on the course page. Erudex quizzes, practice tests and completion records are separate from external school examinations or professional credentials. Consult the relevant awarding body or teacher for current external requirements.