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Which AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar focuses on the ability to run and manage infrastructure as code, automate responses to events, and use data to drive improvements?
Which AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar focuses on the ability to run and manage infrastructure as code, automate responses to events, and use data to drive improvements?
- Cost Optimization
- Reliability
- Operational Excellence (correct)
- Performance Efficiency
Which AWS Well-Architected Framework Lens provides guidance specifically for designing analytics workloads?
Which AWS Well-Architected Framework Lens provides guidance specifically for designing analytics workloads?
- Security Lens
- Operational Lens
- Data Analytics Lens (correct)
- ML Lens
What is the primary purpose of using the AWS Well-Architected Framework in the design of data pipelines?
What is the primary purpose of using the AWS Well-Architected Framework in the design of data pipelines?
- To reduce the initial infrastructure costs
- To inform the design of workloads with best practices (correct)
- To ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements
- To accelerate the deployment process
Which of the following is NOT a key element emphasized by the Data Analytics Lens of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Which of the following is NOT a key element emphasized by the Data Analytics Lens of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
In the evolution of data architectures, what drove the shift from relational databases in the 1970s to non-relational databases in the 1990s?
In the evolution of data architectures, what drove the shift from relational databases in the 1970s to non-relational databases in the 1990s?
What was the primary driver for the evolution from data warehouses to data lakes in the mid-2000s?
What was the primary driver for the evolution from data warehouses to data lakes in the mid-2000s?
What is a defining characteristic of the 'purpose-built cloud data stores' era in the evolution of data architectures?
What is a defining characteristic of the 'purpose-built cloud data stores' era in the evolution of data architectures?
What challenge led to the development of Lambda architecture and streaming solutions?
What challenge led to the development of Lambda architecture and streaming solutions?
Which of the following is a key goal of modern data architectures?
Which of the following is a key goal of modern data architectures?
In a modern data architecture on AWS, how is seamless access to a centralized data lake primarily achieved?
In a modern data architecture on AWS, how is seamless access to a centralized data lake primarily achieved?
Which layer of the Modern Data Architecture pipeline is responsible for matching AWS services to data source characteristics?
Which layer of the Modern Data Architecture pipeline is responsible for matching AWS services to data source characteristics?
What role does a metadata catalog play in the storage layer of a modern data architecture?
What role does a metadata catalog play in the storage layer of a modern data architecture?
In the Modern Data Architecture, how are unstructured, semistructured, and structured data typically stored in the storage layer?
In the Modern Data Architecture, how are unstructured, semistructured, and structured data typically stored in the storage layer?
In the context of data zones within Amazon S3 for a Modern Data Architecture, what is the purpose of the 'landing' zone?
In the context of data zones within Amazon S3 for a Modern Data Architecture, what is the purpose of the 'landing' zone?
Which AWS service is used in the catalog layer to provide schema information for data stored in Amazon S3?
Which AWS service is used in the catalog layer to provide schema information for data stored in Amazon S3?
What is the primary role of the processing layer in a modern data architecture pipeline?
What is the primary role of the processing layer in a modern data architecture pipeline?
Which of the following is NOT a type of data processing supported by the processing layer in a modern data architecture?
Which of the following is NOT a type of data processing supported by the processing layer in a modern data architecture?
What capabilities does the consumption layer introduce to the modern data architecture?
What capabilities does the consumption layer introduce to the modern data architecture?
Which of the following components can query data in Amazon S3 directly?
Which of the following components can query data in Amazon S3 directly?
In a streaming analytics pipeline, what is the role of a stream?
In a streaming analytics pipeline, what is the role of a stream?
Which of the following is typically included in a streaming analytics pipeline?
Which of the following is typically included in a streaming analytics pipeline?
What happens to the results of streaming analytics processes?
What happens to the results of streaming analytics processes?
Which AWS service would you use to process a continuous stream of events, such as CloudWatch Events, in near real-time
Which AWS service would you use to process a continuous stream of events, such as CloudWatch Events, in near real-time
When designing analytics workloads using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, what is the focus of the 'Cost Optimization' pillar?
When designing analytics workloads using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, what is the focus of the 'Cost Optimization' pillar?
In the historical progression of data storage solutions, what characteristic distinguished data lakes from earlier database systems?
In the historical progression of data storage solutions, what characteristic distinguished data lakes from earlier database systems?
In a modern data architecture on AWS, which service enables querying data directly from Amazon S3 using SQL, without requiring data to be loaded into a database?
In a modern data architecture on AWS, which service enables querying data directly from Amazon S3 using SQL, without requiring data to be loaded into a database?
A data engineer is designing an ingestion pipeline for streaming data from IoT devices. Which AWS service is most appropriate for this use case?
A data engineer is designing an ingestion pipeline for streaming data from IoT devices. Which AWS service is most appropriate for this use case?
A data architect needs to ensure that all data ingested into their data lake is properly cataloged with metadata. Which AWS service would assist in this task?
A data architect needs to ensure that all data ingested into their data lake is properly cataloged with metadata. Which AWS service would assist in this task?
Which of the followings pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data?
Which of the followings pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data?
A company is setting up a modern data architecture where Amazon S3 is used as the primary data lake. Which one of the following strategies should they implement to categorize data in Amazon S3
A company is setting up a modern data architecture where Amazon S3 is used as the primary data lake. Which one of the following strategies should they implement to categorize data in Amazon S3
Which of these services democratizes consumption across the organization by giving unified access to stored data and metadata?
Which of these services democratizes consumption across the organization by giving unified access to stored data and metadata?
Choose the right Data Analytics Lens guidance decision related elements of data
Choose the right Data Analytics Lens guidance decision related elements of data
Choose the right component which is essential in the stream processing pipeline.
Choose the right component which is essential in the stream processing pipeline.
A financial company needs to implement a data analytics pipeline to process high-velocity stock market data in real time for fraud detection. The company requires the ability to perform complex event processing and aggregation on the streaming data before storing it for further analysis. Which AWS service best suited for this scenario?
A financial company needs to implement a data analytics pipeline to process high-velocity stock market data in real time for fraud detection. The company requires the ability to perform complex event processing and aggregation on the streaming data before storing it for further analysis. Which AWS service best suited for this scenario?
A healthcare organization is building a data lake on AWS to store patient data from various sources, including structured data from relational databases, semi-structured data from medical devices, and unstructured data from clinical notes. The organization wants to enforce consistent data governance policies across the data lake to ensure data quality, security, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Which AWS service is best suited for managing data governance.
A healthcare organization is building a data lake on AWS to store patient data from various sources, including structured data from relational databases, semi-structured data from medical devices, and unstructured data from clinical notes. The organization wants to enforce consistent data governance policies across the data lake to ensure data quality, security, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Which AWS service is best suited for managing data governance.
A global e-commerce company needs to implement a data analytics solution to analyze customer behavior and personalize recommendations in real time. The company wants to build a highly scalable and fault-tolerant data pipeline to ingest and process clickstream data from millions of users worldwide. Which choice will accomplish that?
A global e-commerce company needs to implement a data analytics solution to analyze customer behavior and personalize recommendations in real time. The company wants to build a highly scalable and fault-tolerant data pipeline to ingest and process clickstream data from millions of users worldwide. Which choice will accomplish that?
A retail company is migrating its on-premises data warehouse to AWS and wants to leverage a combination of structured and unstructured data sources for advanced analytics. The company plans to use Amazon S3 for storing unstructured data and Amazon Redshift for storing structured data. Which services can be used to enable querying across both data sources?
A retail company is migrating its on-premises data warehouse to AWS and wants to leverage a combination of structured and unstructured data sources for advanced analytics. The company plans to use Amazon S3 for storing unstructured data and Amazon Redshift for storing structured data. Which services can be used to enable querying across both data sources?
A financial services company is designing architecture for real time fraud for continuous data from bank. Which best solution to protect?
A financial services company is designing architecture for real time fraud for continuous data from bank. Which best solution to protect?
A Data team wants to streamline data to ensure quick data retrieval for analytics, what strategy can they use?
A Data team wants to streamline data to ensure quick data retrieval for analytics, what strategy can they use?
An organization is ingesting large volume of unstructured logs, what AWS pattern will ensure high availability.?
An organization is ingesting large volume of unstructured logs, what AWS pattern will ensure high availability.?
Flashcards
Well-Architected Framework
Well-Architected Framework
A framework by AWS providing best practices across six pillars.
Well-Architected Lenses
Well-Architected Lenses
Guidance that extends the Well-Architected Framework to specific domains.
Data Analytics Lens
Data Analytics Lens
A lens providing key design elements for analytics workloads.
Hierarchical Databases
Hierarchical Databases
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Relational Databases
Relational Databases
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Object storage
Object storage
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Modern data architecture
Modern data architecture
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Data Lake
Data Lake
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Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena
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AWS Glue
AWS Glue
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Ingestion Layer
Ingestion Layer
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Consumption Layer
Consumption Layer
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Processing Layer
Processing Layer
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
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Amazon EMR
Amazon EMR
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Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
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Study Notes
- The module prepares you to use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to inform the design of analytics workloads.
- Key milestones in the evolution of data stores and data architectures are reviewed
- The components of modern data architectures on AWS are described
- AWS design considerations and key services for a streaming analytics pipeline are cited
AWS Well-Architected Framework and Lenses
- The Well-Architected Framework provides best practices and design guidance across six pillars:
- Operational Excellence
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance Efficiency
- Cost Optimization
- Sustainability
- Well-Architected Lenses extend the AWS Well-Architected Framework guidance to specific domains and contain insights from real-world case studies
- The Data Analytics Lens provides key design elements of analytics workloads and includes reference architectures for common scenarios
- The ML Lens addresses differences between application and machine learning (ML) workloads and provides a recommended ML lifecycle
- Activity: The Data Analytics Lens from the Well-Architected Framework is used to identify cloud best practices for data engineering teams building data pipelines
The Evolution of Data Architectures
- Application architecture evolved into more distributed systems:
- 1970: Mainframe
- 1980: Client-Server
- 1990: Internet 3-tier
- 2020: Cloud-based microservices
- Data stores evolved to handle a greater variety of data:
- 1970: Relational databases
- 1990: Nonrelational databases
- 2010: Data lakes
- 2020: Purpose-built cloud data stores
- Data architectures evolved to handle volume and velocity:
- 1980: Data warehouses and OLTP vs OLAP databases, application databases are overburdened
- 2000: Big data systems, relational databases cannot scale effectively for analytics and AI/ML
- 2010: Lambda architecture and streaming solutions, Big data systems can't keep up with demands for real-time analysis
- Modern data architectures unify distributed solutions, data stores and architectures evolved to adapt to increasing demands of data volume, variety, and velocity
- Modern data architectures continue to use different types of data stores to suit different use cases
- The goal of modern architecture is to unify disparate sources to maintain a single source of truth
Modern Data Architecture on AWS
- Key design considerations for modern data architecture:
- Scalable data lake
- Performant and cost-effective components
- Seamless data movement
- Unified governance
- Key AWS services:
- Amazon EMR
- Aurora
- Relational databases
- Big data processing
- Nonrelational databases
- Athena
- OpenSearch Service
- DynamoDB
- Log analytics
- Amazon S3
- Machine learning
- SageMaker
- Data warehousing
- Amazon Redshift
- Lake Formation
- AWS Glue
- A centralized data lake provides data that can be available to all consumers
- Purpose-built data stores and processing tools integrate with the lake to read and write data
- The architecture supports these types of data movement:
- Outside in
- Inside out
- Around the perimeter
- AWS services that are key to seamless access to a centralized lake include Amazon S3, Lake Formation, and AWS Glue
Modern Data Architecture Pipeline: Ingestion and Storage
- Matches AWS services to data source characteristics, integrates with storage.
- Provides durable, scalable storage, includes a metadata catalog for governance and discoverability of data.
- SaaS apps use Amazon AppFlow
- OLTP, ERP, CRM, LOB use AWS DMS
- File shares use DataSync
- Web Devices, Sensors Social media use Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose
- Unstructured, semistructured, and structured data is stored as objects in Amazon S3.
- Semistructured data is loaded into staging tables for Amazon Redshift.
- Highly structured data is loaded into traditional schemas
- Amazon S3 data lake is organized with prefixes or individual buckets as zones to organize data in different states, from landing to curated
- AWS Glue and Lake Formation are used in a catalog layer to store metadata
- With the catalog, Amazon Redshift Spectrum can query data in Amazon S3 directly.
Modern Data Architecture Pipeline: Processing and Consumption
- Processing transforms data into a consumable state using purpose-built components
- Analysis and Visualization democratizes consumption across the organization and provides unified access to stored data and metadata
- Processing supports 3 types of processing: SQL based ELT, Big Data Processing, and Near real-time ETL
- Consumption supports 3 types of analysis: interactive SQL queries, BI dashboards, and ML
Streaming Analytics Pipeline
- Streaming analytics includes producers and consumers
- A stream provides temporary storage to process incoming data in real time
- The results of streaming analytics can also be saved to downstream destinations
- AWS services:
- CloudWatch Events
- Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
- OpenSearch Service
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Redshift
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