AWS Data Analytics & Machine Learning 2

Question 1

Which AWS service provides a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse for running complex analytic queries?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Redshift

Answer

Amazon Redshift is AWS's fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse optimized for analytic queries.

Question 2

A team needs to run ad-hoc SQL queries directly against data stored in Amazon S3 without managing servers. Which service fits best?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Athena

Answer

Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that lets you run standard SQL directly on data in S3.

Question 3

Which AWS service is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that catalogs data and prepares it for analytics?

Accepted Answer

AWS Glue

Answer

AWS Glue is a serverless ETL service that includes a Data Catalog for discovering and preparing data.

Question 4

Which service provides business intelligence dashboards and interactive visualizations with SPICE in-memory acceleration?

Accepted Answer

Amazon QuickSight

Answer

Amazon QuickSight is AWS's serverless BI service that uses the SPICE engine for fast in-memory analytics.

Question 5

A company wants to ingest and process streaming clickstream data in real time. Which service is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Answer

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is built for real-time ingestion and processing of streaming data like clickstreams.

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