Free practice test

DEA-C01

Free AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate practice test

10 original Data Engineer Associate questions, playable right now. No account, no card, no email gate. Every answer opens the full explanation: the concept, why the right option is right, and why each wrong option is wrong, cited to the authoritative documentation behind it.

Sample question 1 of 10

Data Ingestion and Transformation

Which workflow states do not require a Next field?

Sample question 2 of 10

Data Store Management

After how many consecutive days without access does S3 Intelligent-Tiering move an object to the Infrequent Access tier?

Sample question 3 of 10

Data Operations and Support

A user's Spectrum table returns fewer rows than the S3 prefix seems to hold. Which files does Spectrum skip?

Sample question 4 of 10

Data Security and Governance

A user wants to react in near real time to the data events their trail records. Where are those events available?

Sample question 5 of 10

Data Ingestion and Transformation

An engineer runs SHOW PARTITIONS against a projected table and gets nothing back. What explains the empty result?

Sample question 6 of 10

Data Store Management

A team asks how a crawler chooses among the custom classifiers they configured. What rule applies?

Sample question 7 of 10

Data Operations and Support

How is access to an individual Athena workgroup controlled?

Sample question 8 of 10

Data Security and Governance

An engineer sets a detection threshold of 10 on a Glue PII scan. What does that number control?

Sample question 9 of 10

Data Ingestion and Transformation

An engineer sets a custom CDC start time on a PostgreSQL source and DMS rejects it. What accounts for that?

Sample question 10 of 10

Data Store Management

A team's queries filter on the first two of four sort key columns, in the order they were declared. Which sort type suits that?

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What this test covers

These 10 questions are drawn across the published exam blueprint rather than from one chapter: this set touches Data Ingestion and Transformation, Data Store Management, Data Operations and Support, Data Security and Governance. Every question is original, written from the official objectives, and verified against a cited vendor page before it serves. None are recalled exam content, which is why the explanations can cite their sources.

A 10-question sample tells you where you stand, not whether you are ready. The full experience is numbered practice exams: 65 questions apportioned to the official domain weightings, sat under the real 130-minute clock and scored against the published cut score.

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