#83 Ace AWS Certified Data Analytics — Specialty (DAS-C01) certification exam as a Junior Data Engineer (part 1)

I must admit that taking this exam is literally me taking a huge risk as according to online sources, this is a challenging certification exam that requires you some yoe working with AWS services. I mainly work as a Data Engineer who is also involved in Data Analytics in Microsoft Azure ecosystem. Shall we challenge ourselves to pass this exam with this strategy?

First of all, let’s get a clearer picture of this exam and some important concepts.

DISCLAIMER: You’ll need to spend ABUNDANCE amount of time on learning by heart concepts, jumping from courses to courses and digesting the information on the course. It would be a huge BONUS to already possess some skills and experience on Azure ecosystem.

Exam info

Target candidate: The target candidate should have a minimum of 5 years of experience with common data analytics technologies. The target candidate also should have at least 2 years of hands-on experience and expertise working with AWS services to design, build, secure, and maintain analytics solutions.

• Duration: 180 minutes.
• No. of questions: 65 (15 questions are marketing questions and therefore do not affect your score).
• Question format: multiple choice and multiple response.
• Passing threshold: 750/1000 (75%)