AWS Data Analytics Specialty
AWS Data Analytics Specialty Certification preparation steps and materials
Introduction
The AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty certification is for data engineers and professionals who want to show their data analytics skills on the AWS platform. As the exam was previously called the AWS Big Data Speciality, it has questions on the AWS big data services which are a combination of Data Analytics and Big Data. The exam will test your ability to collect, store, maintain ,design, analyze, visualize and secure data analytics solutions. The test has five key domains: Data Collection, Storage and Data Management, Processing, Analysis and Visualization, and Security.
The following is a list of some of the important AWS data analytics services that are expected to be known in depth for the exam. There are many other services that should be known for the exam but these are the most important ones in my experience and you can get information about the other services from the resources in this blog.
Collection
Amazon Kinesis
IOT Core
SQS
DMS
MSK
Storage
S3
ElastiCache
DynamoDB
Processing
Glue
EMR
Lambda
Analysis
Athena
RedShift
Elasticsearch
Visualization
Quicksight
Security
KMS
CloudHSM
Experience
For people who are taking this test, it is good to have at least 2–5 years of experience in the data engineering domain and have basic-intermediate knowledge on the AWS platform. Having a previous Associate level AWS certification like the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Certified Developer Associate would be helpful too.
Useful Resources
Official Documentation
https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-data-analytics-specialty/?ch=sec&sec=rmg&d=1
Exam Guide
Sample Questions
Helpful Courses
Though I have provided two useful course links below, I have used only the Udemy course for the course content which I had gone through three times as a part of my preparation.
- AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty 2022 — Hands On! — Udemy
- AWS Certified Data Analytics — Specialty — Whizlabs (Video Course)
Helpful Practice Tests
- LMS | Whizlabs (Practice Tests)
There are three mock tests here which are very helpful to understand the pattern and type of questions that can be expected in the official exam. There are other section level practice tests with 10 questions in each section as well. - AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty Practice Exams 2022 — Tutorials Dojo
There are two mock tests here each with a Timed Mode and a Review Mode.
