AWS Data Engineer – Associate Roadmap

The four AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) exam domains: data ingestion & transformation, data store management, data operations & support, and data security & governance.

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Ingestion & Transformation

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How data enters AWS in batch and streams, and how it is cleaned, reshaped and orchestrated into analytics-ready form (Domain 1 · 34%)

Data Store Management

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Choosing and operating the right store — S3 data lakes, Redshift, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB — with partitioning, file formats and lifecycle (Domain 2 · 26%)

Operations & Support

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Monitoring, troubleshooting, automating and serving pipelines and data — CloudWatch, data quality, Athena and QuickSight (Domain 3 · 22%)

Security & Governance

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Encrypting, controlling access to, classifying and governing data — KMS, IAM, Lake Formation, Macie and lineage (Domain 4 · 18%)

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AWS Data Engineer – Associate Roadmap

Ingestion & Transformation

Streaming ingestion

Batch ingestion & migration

ETL with AWS Glue

Big-data transformation & query

Pipeline orchestration

Data Store Management

S3 data lakes

Lake Formation & governed lakes

Data warehousing with Redshift

Operational data stores

Operations & Support

Monitoring & logging

Data quality & troubleshooting

Serving & analysing data

Automation & cost optimisation

Security & Governance

Encryption & key management

Access control

Classification, PII & compliance

Auditing, lineage & governance