AWS Certification
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Speciality
This credential is helpful for organizations in identifying and developing talent that possesses critical skills in implementing cloud initiatives. Earning this certification validates that you have expertise in using AWS Data lakes and analytics services to pull relevant data insights
This certification is suitable for learners who have expertise in working with AWS services to design, build, secure and maintain analytics solutions. We recommend that the learner should have five years of experience with common data analytics technologies. Additionally you should have experience and ability to explain how AWS data analytics services fit in the data collection lifecycle
Who should take this exam?
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty is intended for individuals with experience and expertise working with AWS services to design, build, secure, and maintain analytics solutions. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
- Five years of experience with common data analytics technologies
- Two years of hands-on experience and expertise working with AWS services to design, build, secure, and maintain analytics solutions
- Ability to define AWS data analytics services and understand how they integrate with each other
- Ability to explain how AWS data analytics services fit in the data lifecycle of collection, storage, processing, and visualization
Exam Overview
Level: Speciality
Length: 180 minutes to complete the exam
Cost: 300 USD
Format: 65 questions; either multiple choice or multiple response
Exam Content
Response types
There are two types of questions on the exam:
- Multiple choice: Has one correct response and three incorrect responses
(distractors) - Multiple response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more
response option
Select one or more responses that best complete the statement or answer the question. Distractors, or incorrect answers, are response options that a candidate with incomplete knowledge or skill might choose. Distractors are generally plausible responses that match the content area.
Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect; there is no penalty for guessing. The exam includes 50 questions that affect your score.
Content outline
This exam guide includes weightings, content domains, and task statements for the exam. This guide does not provide a comprehensive list of the content on the exam. However, additional context for each task statement is available to help you prepare for the exam.
The exam has the following content domains and weightings:
- Domain 1: Collection (18% of scored content)
- Domain 2: Storage and Data Management (22% of scored content)
- Domain 3: Processing (24% of scored content)
- Domain 4: Analysis and Visualization (18% of scored content)
- Domain 5: Security (18% of scored content)
Prepare for the exam
Below are recommended steps you can follow to get ready for exam day. Note: AWS does not require you to take any specific AWS training as part of your exam prep.
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FAQs
AWS Certification is investing in building new role-based certifications, like the new AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate, that is focused on the data engineer job role. AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty encompasses multiple data job functions.
The retiring AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty covers a broader set of domains and more complex topics across multiple data roles and includes data analysis and visualization, which are aligned with the data analyst job role. The new AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate is aligned to the data engineer job role and is focused on the ingestion, transformation, storage, and management of data.
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate does not go into as much depth and complexity as AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty, includes application of programming concepts (not within scope of AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty), and has a heavier focus on data operations/support and implementation of security requirements than AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty does.
You can still recertify the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty by retaking the exam on or before April 8, 2024. Once recertified, your certification will remain active for 3 years from the date it was earned.
If you have purchased professional and specialty vouchers, you can use your voucher for this exam before April 8, 2024, the last day of delivery for this exam.
No, exam vouchers are applicable only for the exam categories they were issued for.
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