The AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate certification covers data ingestion, transformation, storage, operations and security on AWS, and this course follows the vendor exam content outline.
AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Course in Australia
The AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate certification, exam code DEA-C01, is an Associate level AWS credential for data engineering. The AWS exam guide sets out four content domains covering how data is ingested, stored, operated and secured on AWS. This AWS data engineer associate course follows those domains.
Who this course suits
This AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate course suits career changers, cloud engineers, data analysts and data engineers. It also suits database administrators, ETL developers and software engineers.
What this course covers
The syllabus covers data ingestion and transformation, data store management, data operations and support, and data security and governance, with named AWS services such as AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lake Formation. Training will help prepare candidates for the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate DEA-C01 exam.
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AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate is an Associate level certification in the AWS certification program. AWS organises its exam guide into four content domains: data ingestion and transformation, data store management, data operations and support, and data security and governance.
Logitrain provides digital course material, the price beat guarantee, and a choice of in-person, in-house or live online delivery. The exam is taken at any Pearson VUE test centre or online with Pearson VUE online proctoring.
AWS describes the target candidate as having the equivalent of 2 to 3 years of experience in data engineering and at least 1 to 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS services. AWS does not make training mandatory for the exam.
Candidates new to AWS can start with the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course.
Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam.
DEA-C01 AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate
The exam is not included in the course fee. It is booked and paid separately through Pearson VUE.
Attempt it at any Pearson VUE test centre, or online through Pearson VUE online proctoring from a private space with a camera, microphone and speaker.
Exam format: a maximum of 65 questions, 130 minutes, with a passing score of 720 on a scale of 100 to 1,000.
Digital course material included for the DEA-C01 AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate exam.
- Analysing data by using AWS services
- Applying authentication mechanisms
- Applying authorisation mechanisms
- Applying programming concepts
- Automating data processing by using AWS services
- Choosing a data store
- Designing data models and schema evolution
- Ensuring data encryption and masking
- Ensuring data quality
- Maintaining and monitoring data pipelines
- Managing the lifecycle of data
- Orchestrating data pipelines
- Performing data ingestion
- Preparing logs for audit
- Transforming and processing data
- Understanding data cataloging systems
- Understanding data privacy and governance
- Career changers
- Cloud engineers
- Data analysts
- Data engineers
- Database administrators
- ETL developers
- Software engineers
- Data ingestion
- Data transformation and processing
- Data pipeline orchestration
- Programming concepts
- Amazon DynamoDB Streams
- Amazon S3 Event Notifications
- AWS Glue crawlers
- AWS Glue workflows
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Kinesis
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Spark
- Apache Hive metastore
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Parquet
- JDBC
- ODBC
- Data store selection
- Data cataloging systems
- Data lifecycle management
- Data models and schema evolution
- Amazon Redshift federated queries
- Amazon Redshift materialized views
- Amazon Redshift Spectrum
- AWS Glue Data Catalog
- AWS DMS Schema Conversion
- AWS SCT
- Amazon SageMaker ML Lineage Tracking
- Amazon SageMaker Catalog
- Amazon Bedrock knowledge bases
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
- Amazon DynamoDB TTL
- Amazon S3 Lifecycle policies
- Amazon S3 versioning
- AWS Lake Formation
- HNSW
- IVF
- Data processing automation by using AWS services
- Data analysis by using AWS services
- Data pipeline maintenance and monitoring
- Data quality
- Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
- Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
- Amazon QuickSight
- Amazon Athena notebooks
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
- AWS CloudTrail Lake
- Authentication mechanisms
- Authorisation mechanisms
- Data encryption and masking
- Log preparation for audit
- Data privacy and governance
- Amazon S3 Access Points
- AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Amazon Macie with AWS Lake Formation
- Amazon Redshift data sharing
- VPC security groups
- IAM roles, groups and policies
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course: A Foundational level AWS certification course.
- AWS Data Analytics course: A related course on analytics on AWS.
- Building Data Lakes on AWS course: A related course on data lakes on AWS.
- Big Data on AWS course: A related course on big data on AWS.
- AWS courses and certifications: The AWS course category at Logitrain.
What is the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate certification?
AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate is an Associate level AWS certification for data engineering. AWS publishes the exam content outline that this course follows.
What does the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate course cover?
The course covers the four content domains in the AWS exam guide: data ingestion and transformation, data store management, data operations and support, and data security and governance. Training will help prepare you for the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate exam.
Is the exam included in the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate course fee?
No. The official exam fee is not included in the course fee. The exam is booked and paid separately through Pearson VUE.
What are the prerequisites for the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate course?
AWS describes the target candidate as having the equivalent of 2 to 3 years of experience in data engineering and at least 1 to 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS services. AWS does not make training mandatory for the exam.
What is the current exam version for AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate?
The course is built around the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate exam. AWS publishes current exam details on its certification page for this exam, so that page is the place to confirm the latest version.
How long is the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate course?
The length depends on the schedule option chosen. Full-time weekdays, part-time weeknights and part-time weekends are available, and the current duration is shown in the course details on this page.
Where is the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate training held?
Training is held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra, plus live online across Australia. Logitrain can also deliver the course in house at a client site.
Which course should come before the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate course?
Individuals new to AWS can start with the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course.

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