DEA-C01 AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate Free Practice Questions and Answers
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Last updated on November 1, 2026
341 Questions & Answers
Practice AWS data engineering topics including Glue, Lake Formation, S3, analytics, orchestration, and event-driven processing This independent practice material is not an official AWS exam.
Questions 1–5
An AWS Glue job in private subnets cannot reach an S3 bucket. The VPC already has an S3 gateway endpoint, and the job role has S3 permissions. What should the engineer check first?
Reveal Solution
Private subnet routing must direct S3 traffic to the gateway endpoint, and the endpoint policy must allow the required S3 actions.
Analysts share a customer data lake, but each analyst should see records only for customers in the analyst’s country. The team wants centralized governance with minimal separate datasets. What should it use?
Reveal Solution
Lake Formation can enforce fine-grained data permissions, including row-level filters, for governed data lake tables.
A media company wants to incorporate licensed third-party datasets into its analytics environment with minimal integration effort. Which AWS service can help discover and subscribe to those datasets?
Reveal Solution
AWS Data Exchange provides a managed way to find, subscribe to, and access third-party datasets.
A data mesh requires centralized governance, S3-based storage, and serverless SQL analysis. Which combination best fits?
Reveal Solution
S3 stores the data, Glue catalogs it, Lake Formation governs access, and Athena provides serverless SQL queries.
Many Lambda functions use the same custom Python formatting code. The team wants to update the shared code once rather than editing every function. What should it package?
Reveal Solution
Lambda layers package reusable libraries that multiple functions can reference and update centrally.