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Knowledge Check :Building Data Lakes on AWS (AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate) Answers 2025

1. Question 1

Benefits of AWS Lake Formation

  • ❌ Build data lakes quickly

  • ❌ Simplify security management

  • ❌ Provide self-service access to data

  • All of the above

Explanation:
Lake Formation provides faster data lake creation, centralized security & permissions, and self-service data discovery & access.


2. Question 2 (Select THREE)

Three stages to set up a data lake using Lake Formation

  • Register the storage location

  • ❌ Create a database (This is Glue Data Catalog step, not part of the 3 Lake Formation setup stages)

  • ❌ Populate the database

  • Grant permissions

  • ❌ Provision AWS data lake infrastructure

  • Develop custom data ingestion pipelines

Correct answers: 1, 4, 6

Explanation:
Lake Formation setup stages are:

  1. Register your S3 storage locations (Lake storage)

  2. Grant permissions (fine-grained access control)

  3. Ingest data (using Glue jobs, pipelines, or your own ETL → “develop custom ingestion pipelines”)

“Create a database” and “populate the database” are not part of the Lake Formation 3-step setup flow.


🧾 Summary Table

Q# Correct Answer Key Concept
1 All of the above Lake Formation benefits
2 Register storage, Grant permissions, Develop ingestion pipelines Lake Formation setup