DEA-C01AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate practice exams
Original questions written from the published objectives and cited to official documentation, never recalled exam content. How we verify, why not dumps.
- Exam code
- DEA-C01
- Cost
- $150 USD
- Questions
- 65 (50 scored, 15 unscored)
- Duration
- 130 minutes
- Passing score
- 720 (scale 100-1000)
- Format
- Multiple choice and multiple response
Fail and the retake is another $150. Practicing until you are ready is the cheapest part of this. Full cost breakdown.
What the exam tests
Exam domains and official weightings
From the official AWS exam guides. Put your study time where the weight is.
- Data Ingestion and Transformation34%
- Data Store Management26%
- Data Operations and Support22%
- Data Security and Governance18%
Coverage by domain
0 verified- Data Ingestion and Transformation0 / 34% of exam
- Data Store Management0 / 26% of exam
- Data Operations and Support0 / 22% of exam
- Data Security and Governance0 / 18% of exam
Open now. Nothing is published for Data Engineer Associate yet. The bank is being written from the official objectives.
Opens next. The first practice exam opens at 65 verified questions, spread across all 4 domains.
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What the exam actually asks you to do
Multiple choice and multiple response only. No simulations, no labs, and nothing to configure.
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
Nothing here needs a lab. Reading carefully and eliminating options is the whole skill. AWS, Data Engineer Associate exam guide ↗
Data Engineer Associate practice exams
No complete practice exam yet. A form is 65 questions apportioned to the official weightings, and a partial one would report a score that means nothing, so none is assembled until the questions are there.
- Open now
- Nothing is published for Data Engineer Associate yet. The bank is being written from the official objectives.
- Opens next
- The first practice exam opens at 65 verified questions, spread across all 4 domains.
Where Data Engineer Associate fits
An honest study plan
1. Read the official objectives first
Download the official objectives from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and skim every line. The exam can only test what’s listed there, it’s the contract.
2. Weight your study toward Data Ingestion and Transformation and Data Store Management
Together the top two domains are 60% of the exam. Practice them until your accuracy is consistently above 80%.
3. Drill weak domains, then sit a numbered practice exam
Use Domain Drill on your weakest areas, then sit a full-length form under exam conditions: 65 questions in 130 minutes, scored against the published pass mark. Book the real exam when you are consistently clearing that, not before.
Official free resources
Study from the source. These are Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s own materials:
Official Data Engineer Associate exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
Data Engineer Associate passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
How hard is Data Engineer Associate?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.
Frequently asked questions
What does DEA-C01 actually test?
Moving data through AWS: ingesting it with Kinesis or DMS, transforming it in Glue or EMR, storing it in S3, Redshift or DynamoDB, and keeping the pipelines observable and governed. Ingestion and transformation alone is 34% of the exam.
Do I need to know SQL and Python for it?
You read both. Questions show a Glue script, an Athena query or a partitioning scheme and ask why it is slow, wrong or expensive. Writing code is not tested; recognising what a snippet does is.
How does it relate to the retired Data Analytics Specialty?
DEA-C01 replaced that exam's territory at associate level with more pipeline building and less analytics theory. If you found study material for DAS-C01, the service coverage overlaps but the exam is its own blueprint.
Ready to practice for DEA-C01?
Nothing is published for this exam yet. Join the waitlist and we will tell you when the first questions ship, and nothing else.
Data Engineer Associate is not for sale yet. A certification goes on sale when it has a complete practice exam behind it, and this one does not, so there is nothing here worth charging for. Everything published is free to answer in the meantime.