Data-Engineer-Associate Exam Dumps : AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01)

The company is facing performance issues loading data into Amazon Redshift because it is issuing separate COPY commands for each data file location. The most efficient way to increase the speed of data ingestion into Redshift without increasing the cost is to use amanifest file.

Option D: Create a manifest file that contains the data file locations. Use a COPY command to load the data into Amazon Redshift.A manifest file provides a list of all the data files, allowing the COPY command to load all files in parallel from different locations in Amazon S3. This significantly improves the loading speed without adding costs, as it optimizes the data loading process in a single COPY operation.

Other options (A, B, C) involve additional steps that would either increase the cost (provisioning clusters, using Glue, etc.) or do not address the core issue of needing a unified and efficient COPY process.

References:

Amazon Redshift COPY Command

Redshift Manifest File Documentation

The FLEX execution class allows you to run AWS Glue jobs on spare compute capacity instead of dedicated hardware. This can reduce the cost of running non-urgent or non-time sensitive data integration workloads, such as testing and one-time data loads. The FLEX execution class is available for AWS Glue 3.0 Spark jobs. The other options are not as cost-effective as FLEX, because they either use dedicated resources (STANDARD) or do not affect the cost at all (Spot Instance type and GlueVersion). References:

Introducing AWS Glue Flex jobs: Cost savings on ETL workloads

Serverless Data Integration – AWS Glue Pricing

AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate DEA-C01 Complete Study Guide (Chapter 5, page 125)

The data engineer needs to orchestrate ETL jobs that include Spark jobs on Amazon EMR, API calls to Salesforce, and loading data into Redshift. They also need automatic failure handling and retries.Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA)is the best solution for this requirement.

Option A: Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA)Apache Airflow is designed for complex job orchestration, allowing users to define workflows (DAGs) in Python. MWAA manages Airflow and its integrations with other AWS services, including Amazon EMR, Redshift, and external APIs like Salesforce. It provides automatic retry handling, failure detection, and detailed monitoring, which fits the use case perfectly.

Option B (AWS Step Functions)can orchestrate tasks but doesn't natively support complex workflow definitions with Python like Airflow does.

Option C (AWS Glue)is more focused on ETL and doesn't handle the orchestration of external systems like Salesforce as well as Airflow.

Option D (Amazon EventBridge)is more suited for event-driven architectures rather than complex workflow orchestration.

References:

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow on AWS