DEA-C01 Domain 1: Data Ingestion and Transformation

What is the MOST appropriate AWS solution to ingest real-time streaming data?

Multiple choice — select one answer

Answer choices

  1. a. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or Firehose
  2. b. Amazon Athena or Spark on Glue
  3. c. AWS Glue
  4. d. AWS Step Functions or Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)

Architectural breakdown & explanation

Kinesis handles high-throughput streams.

Correct answer(s): a. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or Firehose

Exam domain: Domain 1: Data Ingestion and Transformation (34% weight on the official guide).

Official documentation & study links

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