A list of FAQs curated for the AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty Exam
Published: 2023-03-14 21:42:39

For those who are preparing for the data analytics specialty exam - did you know that some of the exam questions may be from FAQ's?

This is a curated list of FAQ's based on the latest [exam guide](https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-data-analytics-specialty/AWS-Certified-Data-Analytics-Specialty_Exam-Guide.pdf)

So here it goes:

**Analytics:**
- [Amazon Athena](https://aws.amazon.com/athena/faqs/)
- [Amazon CloudSearch](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/faqs/)
- [Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES)](https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/faqs/)
- [Amazon EMR](https://aws.amazon.com/emr/faqs/)
- [AWS Glue](https://aws.amazon.com/glue/faqs/)
- [Amazon Kinesis (excluding Kinesis Video Streams)](https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/faqs/)
- [AWS Lake Formation](https://aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/faqs/)
- [Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka](https://aws.amazon.com/msk/faqs/)
- [Amazon QuickSight](https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/resources/faqs/)
- [Amazon Redshift](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/)

**Application Integration:**
- [Amazon MQ](https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/faqs/)
- [Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)](https://aws.amazon.com/sns/faqs/)
- [Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)](https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/faqs/)
- [AWS Step Functions](https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/faqs/)

**Compute:**
- [Amazon EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/)
- [Elastic Load Balancing](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/faqs/)
- [AWS Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/faqs/)

**Customer Engagement:**
- [Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)](https://aws.amazon.com/ses/faqs/)

**Database:**
- [Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)](https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/faqs/)
- [Amazon DynamoDB](https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/faqs/)
- [Amazon ElastiCache](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/faqs/)
- [Amazon Neptune](https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/faqs/)
- [Amazon RDS](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/)
- [Amazon Redshift](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/)
- [Amazon Timestream](https://aws.amazon.com/timestream/faq/)

**Management and Governance:**
- [AWS Auto Scaling](https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/faqs/)
- [AWS CloudFormation](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/faqs/)
- [AWS CloudTrail](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/faqs/)
- [Amazon CloudWatch](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/faqs/)
- [AWS Trusted Advisor](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/faqs/#AWS_Trusted_Advisor)

**Machine Learning:**
- [Amazon SageMaker](https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/faqs/)

**Migration and Transfer:**
- [AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)](https://aws.amazon.com/dms/faqs/)
- [AWS DataSync](https://aws.amazon.com/datasync/faqs/)
- [AWS Snowball](https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/faqs/)
- [AWS Transfer for SFTP](https://aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/faqs/)

**Networking and Content Delivery:**
- [Amazon API Gateway](https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/faqs/)
- [AWS Direct Connect](https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/faqs/)
- [Amazon VPC (and associated features)](https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/)

**Security, Identity, and Compliance:**
- [AWS AppSync](https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/faqs/)
- [AWS Artifact](https://aws.amazon.com/artifact/faq/)
- [AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)](https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/faqs/)
- [AWS CloudHSM](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudhsm/faqs/)
- [Amazon Cognito](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/faqs/)
- [AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)](https://aws.amazon.com/iam/faqs/)
- [AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)](https://aws.amazon.com/kms/faqs/)
- [Amazon Macie](https://aws.amazon.com/macie/faq/)
- [AWS Secrets Manager](https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/faqs/)
- [AWS Single Sign-On](https://aws.amazon.com/iam/identity-center/faqs/)

**Storage:**
- [Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)](https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/faqs/)
- [Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/)
- [Amazon S3 Glacier](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/)

Happy Learning!