DEA-C01 Domain 1: Data Ingestion and Transformation

After a design review, leadership requires the team to transform data with SQL in the data lake. Which approach is MOST reliable? transform data with SQL in the data lake.

Multiple choice — select one answer

Answer choices

  1. a. Amazon AppFlow
  2. b. AWS Glue DataBrew
  3. c. Amazon Athena or Spark on Glue
  4. d. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or Firehose

Architectural breakdown & explanation

Athena queries S3 with Presto/Trino SQL.

Correct answer(s): c. Amazon Athena or Spark on Glue

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

Official documentation & study links

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