AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate validates skills and knowledge in core data-related AWS services, ability to ingest and transform data, orchestrate data pipelines while applying programming concepts, design data models, manage data life cycles, and ensure data quality.

The AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) exam validates a candidate’s ability to implement data pipelines and to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cost and performance issues in accordance with best practices.

The exam also validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks:
Ingest and transform data, and orchestrate data pipelines while applying programming concepts.
Choose an optimal data store, design data models, catalog data schemas, and manage data lifecycles.
Operationalize, maintain, and monitor data pipelines. Analyze data and ensure data quality.
Implement appropriate authentication, authorization, data encryption, privacy, and governance. Enable logging.